Scaling tall graphic to fit in page

Question

I have a Docbook 4 document with several very tall graphics (not all but some of them are much taller than their width). I want them to scale to fit on the page automatically.

Is there a way to define this in stylesheet? There are over a 1000 graphics and I don't want to check them all by myself.

At the moment it looks like this:

      <figure>
        <title>Some Title</title>
        <mediaobject>
          <imageobject>
            <imagedata fileref="graphic.svg" width="100%" scalefit="1" contentdepth="100%"/>
          </imageobject>
        </mediaobject>
      </figure>

but its only fits the width not the height. So the graphic overlaps with the elements before and after.

As fop i have to use apache-fop.

Answer 1

In order to scale the graphics with an fo:external-graphic, you can use the attributes content-height and/or content-width with the value 'scale-down-to-fit'