hi,

In my current case the images would belong to the XML file and not the
stylesheet so current is OK with me!
For some other case I could need some icons etc from a common directory.

regards
Kaarle Kaila


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jeremias Maerki" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <fop-users@xmlgraphics.apache.org>
Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2006 11:01 AM
Subject: Re: problem with FOP 0.91.beta and gif images


> The command-line of FOP uses the directory of the source XML file (not
> the stylesheet) as base directory/URL. If your stylesheet is not in the
> same directory as the XML file FOP won't find it if you don't specify an
> explicit base directory in the config file. So, the work-around for you
> at the moment is to explicitely set the base URL in the config file
> (Element: "base").
>
> If I'm thinking about it, it is probably a bad idea to use the XML file
> as base URL source when a stylesheet is used. Normally, you'd place the
> resources for a stylesheet relative to the stylesheet, not the source
> XML file. fop-devs, what do you think? It would be easy to fix. On the
> other side, 0.20.5 seems to do the same (see
> Options.setCommandLineOptions).
>
> On 10.01.2006 09:38:03 Andreas Grund wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > i create a stylesheet containing the following source:
> >
> > <fo:table-cell column-number="1">
> >               <fo:block><fo:external-graphic src="bild1.gif"
content-width="75mm"/></fo:block>
> >              </fo:table-cell>
> >
> > Everytime i try to publish my xml-file using my stylesheet i got the
> > error message: image not available: bild1.gif. But the image file is
> > stored in the same folder as the stylesheet. Why does Fop not found the
> > image? I use fop 0.91.beta with all jars found in the downloadfile:
> > fop-0.91beta-bin-jdk1.4.zip. Do I need some further jars to enable gif
> > support in FOP?
>
>
> Jeremias Maerki
>
>
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