In a table cell, the processing instruction pseudo attribute name is
'bgcolor', not 'background-color'. See if that works, least for setting
the table cell background color. I don't know if it will fix the black
color used for transparency, though.
Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
DocBook Consulting
----- Original Message -----
From: "Darya Said-Akbari" <>
To: <>
Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2006 2:15 AM
Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] Background Color declared in DocBook XML not
visible in PDF
> Hi,
>
> whether it's inside a table cell or in common text,
> all my tranparent pictures get a black background
> color.
>
> I'm not sure whether it's an FOP problem, because when
> I check the .fo file after Saxon processing I can't
> find any hint of <?dbfo background-color="#F8F6A3"?>.
>
> The problem is that I depend on tons of transparent
> pictures.
>
> Regards,
> Darya
>
> --- schrieb:
>
>> This is most likely a FOP problem.
>>
>> When I test your example with XEP, I see no
>> background color (at least with
>> an opaque image). That because the width and
>> content-width properties are
>> set to auto when those attributes are not in the
>> source. This means the
>> image and its viewport are the same size, and the
>> image will cover the
>> entire viewport and no background color is visible.
>>
>> But FOP 0.20.5 doesn't support content-width
>> properties, so you won't see
>> the effect anyway.
>>
>> Is your image transparent?
>>
>> You'll probably have better luck
>> putting the background color on the table entry
>> rather than the imagedata.
>> The processing instruction attribute for table cells
>> is bgcolor instead of
>> background-color.
>>
>>
>> Bob Stayton
>> Sagehill Enterprises
>>
>>
>>
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