Thomas DeWeese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi Måns, > > Måns Rullgård wrote: > >> I'm using Batik to dynamically generate and rasterize some graphics >> from a tomcat servlet. I supply my own truetype font to make sure the >> correct font gets used. > > Just curious how are you providing the font?
As a file in the same directory as my CSS file, and a @font-face directive naming the font and file. >> The problem is that something, presumably Batik, is copying this font >> file to a temporary file (in the tomcat temp directory), and fails to >> remove it. Over time, I get hundreds of copies of the same file there >> (with names like +~JF4554.tmp), and have to delete them manually. > > I'm fairly certain that it is not Batik, we use Font.createFont > which takes an InputStream. I would suspect that this method is > copying the file so it can use some sort of native library to read > the font... Not that this helps you, I'm just "passing the buck" to > the JVM :) Maybe I should try the latest JVM version, though I'm always a bit on cautious side when it comes to upgrading the JVM. Is batik known to work with Java 1.5? I'm using 1.4 right now. >> Am I doing something wrong? I am certain that I am not telling anyone >> to do the copying, so I can't see how to make file go away when not >> needed. > > I have two suggestions. > 1) Convert your TrueType font to an SVG font (using ttf2svg, > which is part of the Batik toolkit). This might be slightly > slower but most of our bottlenecks are not the font stuff. The real > thing you will lose is font hinting, but the JDK doesn't do a great > job with this right now anyways. I could always give it a try. Do I still specify the font in the same way? > 2) Add a font cache similar to our Image cache into Batik. > This way as long as the same URL was used each time for the font, you > would only create one instance of the font. This would probably make > a minor speed improvement. I could point out the places where changes > would need to be made (I don't think this would be difficult). Thanks, but I really don't have the time to start hacking Batik right now. The speed isn't terribly important, since I'm anyway caching the rasterized versions. > Even if you decide to go with #1 for now could you file a Bugzilla > requesting #2 so it's not forgotten (I think it's a good idea). And of course it requires registration... Oh well, I'll do it anyway. -- Måns Rullgård [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
