Axional provides a high quality reporting and document publishing library built on top of FOP processing. The DocumentBuilder object provides a mechanism to access the library.

1 The page layout

You can generate a simple page layout using DocumentBuilder, creating a SimplePageMaster and adding a PageSequence. By default, each SimplePageMaster has 5 regions:

Body, the region where content flows
Before, the region above the body
After, the region below the body
Start, the region left to the body
End, the region right to the body

The following examples will generate a A4 Portrait and A4 Landscape in debug mode so we can see the 5 regions. Notice, margins of 0.5 cm are show white.

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A4 Portrait

<script>
    var PAGE_EVEN = "Page";

    // ====================================================================
    // Document layout: single page, 0.5 margins, A4 Portrait
    // ====================================================================
    
    var root = new Ax.fop.DocumentBuilder()
    	.setDebug("*")
    	.addSimplePageMaster(PAGE_EVEN, new Ax.fop.PageSize("A4"), 0.5, 0.5, 0.5, 0.5)
    	.addPageSequence(PAGE_EVEN)
    	.build();
    	
    // ====================================================================
    // GENERATE PDF
    // ====================================================================
    
    var fop = root.toFOP();
    let pdf = new Ax.fop.Processor().transform(fop);
    let doc = new Ax.io.File("/tmp/Regions_A4.pdf");
    doc.write(pdf);
    return pdf;	
	
</script>

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A4 Landscape

<script>
    var PAGE_EVEN = "Page";
    
    // ====================================================================
    // Document layout: single page, 0.5 margins, A4 Landscape
    // ====================================================================
    
    var root = new Ax.fop.DocumentBuilder()
    	.setDebug("*")
    	.addPageMaster(PAGE_EVEN, new Ax.fop.PageSize("A4").rotate, 0.5, 0.5, 0.5, 0.5)
    	.addPageSequence(PAGE_EVEN)
    	.build();
    	
    // ====================================================================
    // GENERATE PDF
    // ====================================================================
    
    var fop = root.toFOP();
    let pdf = new Ax.fop.Processor().transform(fop);
    let doc = new Ax.io.File("/tmp/Regions_A4_Landscape.pdf");
    doc.write(pdf);
    return pdf;	
    	
</script>