RE: TIFFRenderer
At 04:31 PM 5/21/02, you wrote: Are the AWTRenderer spacing fixes in a release version of FOP? If so, which version? No; but my understanding is that it is now committed to cvs - at least in the maint branch, in what will be the upcoming 0.20.4 maint release. The change is confined one method (renderWordArea) in ...fop.render.awt.AWTRenderer. ' Best, -Ralph LaChance - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: TIFFRenderer
I think you're the second one who announced such a TIFF renderer in a short period of time. Personally, I would like to see a bitmap renderer in FOP even though I don't have an immediate need myself. I'd like to offer my sponsorship. If no other committer wants to take it, I'm going to look at the two submissions as soon as possible and see how best to integrate one (or a combination of both) into FOP. If someone is against that move, please speak up. Here's a link to the other post: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=fop-userm=101965756701667w=2 I'm just wondering if fop developers are interested in one more output format such as TIFF ? I beleive it's very easy to produce tiff having AWTrenderer. The only things one have to do is to extend AWTRenderer, to pick up generated BufferedImages page by page and to encode them by tiff encoder. Actually I developed such TIFFRenderer a couple weeks ago in order to get fax-suitable output from a fop-running system I'm working on now (see http://www.tkachenko.com/fop/tiffrenderer.html). That stuff was downloaded couple of dozens times by the people, so I believe some kind of interest among fop users does exist. btw, size of Batik-dependent version of TIFFRenderer is only 56 kB. Well, I do like fop and I'd be glad to contribute that humble piece of code to the project. Cheers, Jeremias Märki mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] OUTLINE AG Postfach 3954 - Rhynauerstr. 15 - CH-6002 Luzern Tel. +41 41 317 2020 - Fax +41 41 317 2029 Internet http://www.outline.ch - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: TIFFRenderer
We would be real interested in TIFF rendering from FOP since our application includes a fax component. My only concern is the use of the AWTRenderer. Whenever we use the AWTRenderer the output (on screen and print) is not as crisp and sharp as the PDF version. The spacing of letters and words is a major issue with the AWTRenderer (as was mentioned in a previous thread). If however a TIFF renderer could be produced that does NOT have these issues we would be real happy to use it. Jim Urban - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Park City Solutions Inc. Clinical Connectivity Suite Product Manager Suite 295 500 Park Blvd. Itasca, IL 60143 Voice: (630) 250-3045 x106 Fax: (630) 250-3046 CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE This message and any included attachments are from Park City Solutions Inc. and are intended only for the entity to which it is addressed. The contained information is confidential and privileged material. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any use, dissemination, or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If you have received this communication in error please notify the sender of the delivery error by e-mail or call Park City Solutions Inc. corporate offices at (435) 654-0621 -Original Message- From: Jeremias Maerki [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2002 8:47 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: TIFFRenderer I think you're the second one who announced such a TIFF renderer in a short period of time. Personally, I would like to see a bitmap renderer in FOP even though I don't have an immediate need myself. I'd like to offer my sponsorship. If no other committer wants to take it, I'm going to look at the two submissions as soon as possible and see how best to integrate one (or a combination of both) into FOP. If someone is against that move, please speak up. Here's a link to the other post: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=fop-userm=101965756701667w=2 I'm just wondering if fop developers are interested in one more output format such as TIFF ? I beleive it's very easy to produce tiff having AWTrenderer. The only things one have to do is to extend AWTRenderer, to pick up generated BufferedImages page by page and to encode them by tiff encoder. Actually I developed such TIFFRenderer a couple weeks ago in order to get fax-suitable output from a fop-running system I'm working on now (see http://www.tkachenko.com/fop/tiffrenderer.html). That stuff was downloaded couple of dozens times by the people, so I believe some kind of interest among fop users does exist. btw, size of Batik-dependent version of TIFFRenderer is only 56 kB. Well, I do like fop and I'd be glad to contribute that humble piece of code to the project. Cheers, Jeremias Märki mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] OUTLINE AG Postfach 3954 - Rhynauerstr. 15 - CH-6002 Luzern Tel. +41 41 317 2020 - Fax +41 41 317 2029 Internet http://www.outline.ch - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: TIFFRenderer
Ralph LaChance is working on it. Check the current CVS. Ralph's diff should have improved some of this. But it seems like AWT still has its pitfalls. Implementing a full bitmap renderer without the use of AWT would be a major pile of work, I think. But you can always try to use GhostScript to convert a PDF/PS to TIFF which should have about the same qualities as the PDF. Which method are you using right now? We would be real interested in TIFF rendering from FOP since our application includes a fax component. My only concern is the use of the AWTRenderer. Whenever we use the AWTRenderer the output (on screen and print) is not as crisp and sharp as the PDF version. The spacing of letters and words is a major issue with the AWTRenderer (as was mentioned in a previous thread). If however a TIFF renderer could be produced that does NOT have these issues we would be real happy to use it. Cheers, Jeremias Märki mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] OUTLINE AG Postfach 3954 - Rhynauerstr. 15 - CH-6002 Luzern Tel. +41 41 317 2020 - Fax +41 41 317 2029 Internet http://www.outline.ch - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: TIFFRenderer
Jim Urban wrote: We would be real interested in TIFF rendering from FOP since our application includes a fax component. My only concern is the use of the AWTRenderer. Whenever we use the AWTRenderer the output (on screen and print) is not as crisp and sharp as the PDF version. The spacing of letters and words is a major issue with the AWTRenderer (as was mentioned in a previous thread). Yes, that's known AWTRenderer's problem, but proposed TIFFRenderer being derived from AWTRenderer at least doesn't add any new problems, so we still have only one :) -- Oleg Tkachenko Multiconn International, Israel - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: TIFFRenderer
Jeremias Maerki wrote: Implementing a full bitmap renderer without the use of AWT would be a major pile of work, I think. But you can always try to use GhostScript to convert a PDF/PS to TIFF which should have about the same qualities as the PDF. Which method are you using right now? You mean GhostScript + ImageMagick probably, I have tried that conversion using JMagick (java clone of ImageMagick) and it worked for me, but I was not satisfied with a performance, producing pdf and converting it to tiff using 2 native libraries looks worse to me than producing tiff at once. But having quality as high priority that way is probably more suitable. -- Oleg Tkachenko Multiconn International, Israel - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: TIFFRenderer
Are the AWTRenderer spacing fixes in a release version of FOP? If so, which version? Thanks, Jim Urban - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Park City Solutions Inc. Clinical Connectivity Suite Product Manager Suite 295 500 Park Blvd. Itasca, IL 60143 Voice: (630) 250-3045 x106 Fax: (630) 250-3046 CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE This message and any included attachments are from Park City Solutions Inc. and are intended only for the entity to which it is addressed. The contained information is confidential and privileged material. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any use, dissemination, or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If you have received this communication in error please notify the sender of the delivery error by e-mail or call Park City Solutions Inc. corporate offices at (435) 654-0621 -Original Message- From: Ralph LaChance [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2002 3:11 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: TIFFRenderer At 10:11 AM 5/21/02, you wrote: Ralph LaChance is working on it. Check the current CVS. Ralph's diff should have improved some of this. But it seems like AWT still has its pitfalls. Implementing a full bitmap renderer without the use of AWT would be a major pile of work, I think. But you can always try to use GhostScript to convert a PDF/PS to TIFF which should have about the same qualities as the PDF. Which method are you using right now? Actually, I (biased!) think the present awt renderer is quite good; the character spacings problems within words that existed in previous versions is fixed, and text decorations seem to work correctly. As Jeremias pointed out, I am chasing a new problem - but that one doesn't really bear on awt itself, but shows up only when the awt renderer is used to print. (The problem appears if fop is run w/ -print option or if the print command is invoked on the -awt display dialog.) Offhand, I do not expect the printing problem to show up if the awt renderer were used as the basis for a tiff renderer. We believe the printing problem stems from a java bug around fonts - the character rasterizer seems to be ending up with text strings being improperly sized when it is drawing into a graphics context created by a PrinterJob. There are several related bugs in the bug parade on this matter. ' Best, -Ralph LaChance - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: TIFFRenderer
Are the AWTRenderer spacing fixes in a release version of FOP? If so, which version? In the next: 0.20.4. It's already fixed in CVS. Christian has announced that we can expect a candidate release around June 1st. Cheers, Jeremias Märki mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] OUTLINE AG Postfach 3954 - Rhynauerstr. 15 - CH-6002 Luzern Tel. +41 41 317 2020 - Fax +41 41 317 2029 Internet http://www.outline.ch - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
