> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- > Van: Nico Klasens [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Verzonden: donderdag 11 maart 2004 12:05 > Aan: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Onderwerp: RE: imagemagick and text > > > > very surprising. well, should that make us think about using > > jai? That would certainly solve the problem (hey, why am i > > getting this 'ol microsoft fealing?), but i tried using jai > > with linux, and i got stranded becouse it starts looking for > > an x service (why???), and wouldn't find it even though it > > was there. These problems don't exist on windows. > > Some of the things work with jai (like scaling). See > org.mmbase.module.builders.ConvertJAI for the functionality. > The java.awt.* implementation of SUN required a > windowmanager. To manipulate > images the class java.awt.Image is used. On windows you have > a windowmanager > running when windows start. The Xserver is the windowmanager > for linux. Java > 1.4 has an option (-Djava.awt.headless=true) to use the > java.awt package > without a windowmanager. IIRC the debatplaats is running with > this option.
that is very usefull to know. Thank you. I allso think this little tip should be in the install docs, or maybe the class ConvertJAI could set this attribute. I can't think why anybody would need a windowmanager using jai with mmbase. Or is there an other reason no to let this class set the property? ernst > > Nico > >
