Follow-up issues for after the merge where I'd be glad for feedback: - The new implementations currently all use a MIME suffix ";mode=painter". They are now sufficiently tested that I'm confident that we can switch over to them by default. One idea would be to put a switch in RendererFactory so we can say: prefer IFDocumentHandler instead of Renderer implementation. Or rather the opposite: by default use the IFDocumentHandler but allow to switch to the old mode should there be an unexpected incompatibility. Good idea or bad?
- Given the performance figures I think it would be possible to deprecate the following implementations: PDF, PS, PCL and AFP. As for the Java2D implementations: the PNG, Print and AWT Preview parts are not implemented, yet, so a deprecation here is premature. TXT is probably good enough like it is. No change necessary there. After all, we won't deprecate the Renderer interface itself. Good idea or bad? - A note primarily for Max: For JEuclid to work with the new implementations, it will require an ImageConverter implementation (from XML Graphics Commons' image loading framework). I haven't investigated how hard it would be to provide a compatibility layer so the old implementations could be used. The old stuff is in many parts tied into the Renderer architecture. For Barcode4J, I've written such an implementation already. I can also try to find time to do it for you, if you like. The good thing is that the ImageConverter implementation is not FOP-specific but can also be used by anyone using the image loading framework. Actually, that part might influence the decision for the first and second points above! Jeremias Maerki
