Re: Scaling of graphics in XML documents upon import to FrameMaker

[Mark Barratt <markb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

sverre.ola.medalen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> The graphics comes with the attributes "contentwidth" and "contentdepth"
> set to a pixel value. As the size of the graphics varies from a width in
> the area of 220px and up to 1276px the above scaling rule is not good
> enough. The maximum width of a graphic must be 16cm to fit into our
> document template.
> With the variation in width of the graphics, the rule must scale the
> graphics with a width > 16cm down to exactly 16cm width, and the
> graphics with a width < 16cm to a width suitable for good readability.

This would be straightforward to do as a preprocessing script in Perl or 
XSLT (or, presumably, most other script languages). I don't *think* you 
can do math in read-write rules.

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