XQuery/XSL-FO Images

Motivation You want to enrich your documents with print quality images and charts etc. Method We will use the fo:external-graphic primitive. For example, to add an external image add a block to the XSL-FO: <fo:block> <fo:external-graphic src="https://tet/static/favicon.ico?r=2"/> </fo:block> execute Vector Images SVG is a standard way to describe graphical artwork as vectors. Recent eXist installations (>1.4) with the Apache FOP processor enabled can embed SVG data in the resulting PDF as vector art: just reference them via http redirection as they are not in the file system. See ../Generating PDF from XSL-FO files/ on how to activate the XSLFO feature. <fo:block> <fo:external-graphic src="http://localhost:8080/exist/rest/db/logo.svg"/> </fo:block> PDF image extension For the daring: there is an extension to apache fop, that provides for pdf-images: a method of placing pages of PDF files in the FOP output. Its the work of Jeremias Märki and available at his webspace. $ wget http://www.jeremias-maerki.ch/download/fop/pdf-images/fop-pdf-images-2.0.0.SNAPSHOT-bin.tar.gz $ tar xfz fop-pdf-images-2.0.0.SNAPSHOT-bin.tar.gz $ cp fop-pdf-images-2.0.0.SNAPSHOT/*jar EXIST_HOME/lib/user I had to restart exist to activate pdf-images support in fop. The fo syntax is the same as with SVG, a page-number can be specified after a hash sign in the URL.