Hussein Shafie wrote: > > John Brown wrote: >> >>> ---
[snip] >> >> 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? >> > > --> You picked the wrong plug-in. Please install the plug-in called > "Apache Batik image toolkit plug-in". Other that that, there is nothing > special to do. This should allow you to view and convert documents > containing SVG graphics. > I removed the jimi plugin, installed the Batik plugin, and re-started XXE. It still did not convert the SVG images. Also, the results are a little worse than before. Some PNGs could not be processed. I don't know why. > > [snip] > > The "Install Add-ons" dialog box allows you to read a short > documentation before actually installing the add-on. Please take the > time to do that. > Yes, I am starting to discover that it is not possible to use this software for the simplest thing without reading a lot. Your FAQ says something about that, so it is OK. Fortunately, I am only trying to convert a document that I have already written to Ooo.org. If I had to create a document, I would be in deep trouble. Still, I am sure that once you are used to it, it must be easier than typing the tags by hand, although I get a lot of help from emacs + nxml-mode. > The documentation of the Jimi image toolkit plug-in says: > --- > Jimi 1.0 adds to XXE the support of many image formats including TIFF > and BMP. I was hoping that "many" included SVG. I suppose that they really mean many *raster*? image formats. Anyway, there are also one or two TIFF images in my document. > > The documentation of the Batik image toolkit plug-in says: > --- > Batik 1.7 adds to XXE the support of SVG graphics. > ... > --- OK. > > --> There is no ready-to-use plug-in for the PDF. However, an external > command-line tool such as Ghostscript (supports both PostScript and PDF) > may be converted to an image toolkit plug-in by the means of a > declaration similar to this one: > > Excerpts of my own ~/.xxe4/addon/sample_customize_xxe/imagetoolkits.incl > --- [snip] > > If you are willing to install and use Ghostscript > (http://www.ghostscript.com/), if you don't find all this too > complicated and if you are a customer of XMLmind XML Editor Professional > Edition, I can explain how to proceed step by step. > > Actually, I was going to use Ghostscript to convert the PDFs to a supported format. I am glad that there seems to be a way to make XXE do the conversion for me. Regards, Alias John Brown. _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail: Trusted email with Microsoft?s powerful SPAM protection. http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/196390706/direct/01/
