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RE: FOP images formats
- From: "Rankine, Alastair J (Alastair)" <arankine at avaya dot com>
- To: "O'Donnell, Vincent" <vodonnell at accentopto dot com>,docbook-apps at lists dot oasis-open dot org
- Date: Thu, 02 May 2002 11:30:58 -0600
- Subject: RE: DOCBOOK-APPS: 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
>