Alternate Odd and Even Header / Footer

[Kraizand]

Dear all,

First of all, thanks for this amazing extension. It realy enhances Polarion export, which has a lot of problems.

Trying to optimize some document export now with the extension, I've faced a situation I don't know if it is feasible or not, before opening a bug, I'd like to ask.

From the extension, I am using the "Header / Footer" , adding some information from the page number, document ID and so on. Pretty standard configured, just for testing.

When I've tried to alternate that information using the @page:right / left , I am unable to make it work.

Testing with only text, It works pretty straight forward, basic example;
@page :left{ @bottom-right { content: "Test 2"; text-align: right; display: none; } @bottom-left { content: "Test 1"; text-align: left; display: none; } } @page :right { @bottom-right { content: "Test 1"; text-align: left; display: none; } @bottom-left { content: "Test 2"; text-align: right; display: none; } }

However, even if I delete the display .footer and the running from the @media: print, the footer keeps appearing.

 .footer.bottom-left {
        position: running(bottom-left);
    }
    .footer.bottom-center {
        position: running(bottom-center);
    }

    .footer.bottom-right {
        position: running(bottom-right);
    }

I am wondering if;

1. Are the Header/Footer hardcoded in position and cannot be alternated?
2. If (1) is yes, is there any workaround? I still want to use Polarion data to populate those fields.

Thanks!

[yurtsevich-sbb]

Hello @Kraizand

Approach of inserting variables into header/footer was implemented without differentiating even/odd pages. So, if you wish to use these variables differently depending if it's even or odd page - this is not possible without adopting implementation.

If you wish to insert some predefined values in a footer though then it's possible without any code modification. For this to achieve you should comment following lines in standard CSS (to comment @bottom-left, @bottom-center, @bottom-right definitions in @page):

@page {
    margin: 120px 60px 90px 80px;
    border-bottom: 1px solid #aaa;
    @top-left {
        content: element(top-left);
        display: none;
    }
    @top-center {
        content: element(top-center);
        width: 100%;
    }
    @top-right {
        content: element(top-right);
        display: none;
    }
    /*@bottom-left {*/
    /*    content: element(bottom-left);*/
    /*    display: none;*/
    /*}*/
    /*@bottom-center {*/
    /*    content: element(bottom-center);*/
    /*    width: 100%;*/
    /*}*/
    /*@bottom-right {*/
    /*    content: element(bottom-right);*/
    /*    display: none;*/
    /*}*/
}

Then you can add your code:

@page :left {
    @bottom-right {
        content: "Test 2";
        text-align: right;
    }
    @bottom-left {
        content: "Test 1";
        text-align: left;
    }
}
@page :right {
    @bottom-right {
        content: "Test 1";
        text-align: left;
    }
    @bottom-left {
        content: "Test 2";
        text-align: right;
    }
}

And this will work, just checked. Is this solving your problem?

Best regards,
Dzmitry

[grigoriev]

@Kraizand it would be nice if provide us with the small example.

[Kraizand]

For example:

I'd like to alternate the test "7.2.2 Instructions For Use (rev XXX)" which is defined in the Header/Footer(1)

However as can be seen I do can alternate plain text, but the text defined in (1) i am unable to alternate it

[yurtsevich-sbb]

@Kraizand we will try to make it possible, will inform you later

[yurtsevich-sbb]

@Kraizand the issue was fixed within #339 and should be released within version 8.1.0. Readme was extended with appropriate section: CSS for booklet layout

[Kraizand]

Thank you very much and for the booklet layout details. Unfortunately I won't be able to confirm until switching to 2410 which will be done around H1 this year.