Hi Keiron On 05.03.2003 04:18:39 Keiron Liddle wrote: > The PDF transcoder could be packaged with Batik so that it can be used by users > of Batik only and also used independanlty from the rest of FOP.
You mean Batik will have pdf-transcoder.jar and ps-transcoder.jar in their distributions? Not the source, right? What about factoring out the code for the transcoders and supporting classes (like fonts) into a separate container/subproject accessible by both the FOP and Batik teams? XML-Commons, maybe? That way we could encourage the Batik guys to participate in the future development of the PDF- and PS-related SVG stuff. Just a thought. > So will there be any problems. There is th/e pdf-transcoder build target that > creates the transcoder jar. We could create a tag for the release (call it beta2?). > We do need to make it clear that a FOP release cannot be used at the same time > as this jar due to various changes. +1. We could give the transcoders a bit more visibility on our site. > The PDF transcoder seems to be working fine. There are a couple of problems. > Issues: > - the use of avalon Enumeration requires avalon in the path. It is only used as an > interface for one of the font classes, do we really need that Not really at the moment. But as soon as I have this licensing issues and an initial release of my barcode package behind me, I wanted to go into full Avalon-refactoring mode. And that brings some more Avalon stuff into FOP especially the renderers, fonts and image support. I'd like to propose this: - I'll modify the build so we can generate a raw pdf-transcoder.jar as it is now (needs avalon-framework.jar), but along with another (pdf-transcoder-all.jar) that also contains the necessary Avalon classes. - I'll do the documentation involved. > - do we need all of the font classes for transcoding, which ones can be left out ATM the PFM parser and the apps subpackage are the only ones that can be left out, I think. > There are some minor bugs with patterns in patterns, drawing images and fonts > but there won't be any fixes soon. Wouldn't it make sense to work with the Batik team to get the PDF and PS transcoders into their test infrastructure so we have some good feedback and can quickly improve on the quality to match the AWT output? > Also what is the status of the PS transcoder? Could this be included. I haven't set up the PS transcoder, yet. But I could do that soon. I'm still hoping for George to send in a patch for his PostScript work. Jeremias Maerki --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
