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RE: FOP images formats


The only vector graphics format supported by FOP is SVG.

I don't have any specific recommendations for you, but you may find the following somewhat helpful (with an emphasis on Visio-produced graphics):

	http://sources.redhat.com/ml/docbook-apps/2002-q2/msg00082.html

HTH.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: O'Donnell, Vincent [mailto:vodonnell@accentopto.com]
> Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2002 9:53 AM
> To: 'docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org'
> Subject: DOCBOOK-APPS: FOP images formats
> 
> 
> I used xalan, FOP (both from apache) and the docbook 
> stylesheet to turn my
> docbook XML into pdf.
> 
> This seemed to work fine.
> 
> I really want to have images in my final pdf which are 
> composed of a photo
> with text callouts. If possible I would like the callouts and 
> text to be
> scalable objects rather than bitmappy.
> 
> In the past I have imported photos into Ms Word docs, used Word to put
> labels on them and then used Acrobat to make the pdfs. The 
> resulting images
> are nice and clear and the labels scale up nicely when 
> magnified. I can
> search on the text of the callouts etc.
> 
> I notice that docbook supports wmf format for imagedata, 
> which i think would
> do the trick. However, I wonder, is it possible for FOP to 
> render these kind
> of images into the final pdf? When I try it, the images don't 
> appear. I
> think maybe FOP can only do bitmap style images (like jpeg and gif).
> 
> Has anyone else tried to do what I am trying to do? Any result?
> 
> ta
> 
> V
> 


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