>Douglas.W.Philips at seagate.com wrote: >> >> I am conducting a trial/eval of replacing some of our Framemaker based >> documents with DITA and, possibly, XMLMind's Word doc/rtf support. >> One of the issues I have is that our documents have images in pdf and svg >> formats. >> >> Back on 15 Aug 2008, Jean-Yves Belmonte indicated that only GIF, JPEG and >> PNG image formats are supported. >> (http://www.xmlmind.com/pipermail/xfc-support/2008-August/000959.html) >> >> The XSL-FO Features page >> (http://www.xmlmind.com/foconverter/features.html) says: >> Image support is achieved through the use of external converter classes. >> XMLmind XSL-FO Converter comes with a simple converter class that supports >> the GIF, JPEG and PNG formats. Image scaling is supported. >> >> I cannot seem to find any info/docs on the use of external converter >> classes. Is it is possible to use them to extend image support to include >> .pdf or .svg graphic images? >>
> No. This simple graphics converter class exists, but is not documented. > > One of the enhancements planned for v4.4 (expected for mid-March 2010) > is to overhaul the graphics converter class, to fully document it and to > write a graphics converter based on Batik, which will allow XMLmind > XSL-FO Converter to support SVG. > > Nothing is planned for PDF graphics. > --- > PS: When XMLmind XSL-FO Converter is used in the context of XMLmind XML > Editor, there is no problem converting documents including SVG and PDF > graphics to .docx, .rtf, etc. XMLmind XML Editor has its own add-ons > (called image toolkit plug-ins) which allow to do that. That is, XMLmind > XML Editor does not rely on XMLmind XSL-FO Converter ``native support'' > of advanced graphics formats. > > See http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/ > See http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/addons.shtml#imageToolkitPlugin I installed XML Editor, and the jimi plugin, but when I try to convert my DocBook document to OpenOffice, it complains that no converter exists for SVG and PDF. How is the plugin used? Regards, Alias John Brown. _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail: Powerful Free email with security by Microsoft. http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/196390710/direct/01/
