Hello,
I have a few questions regarding the relationship between
FOP and Batik.
This may be a message for the FOP list, but I'll try here
first.
From what I understand from reading docs on the xml
apache web site,
FOP has "extended" batik in some fashion and added a PDF
transcoder
Along with a few other classes.
Here are my questions:
1) when you download the FOP binaries, you get most of the batik
binaries
in a batik.jar file. However, there is a new class in
org.apache.batik.gvt
called GraphicsNodeRendereContext. This file does not show up in the
batik 1.5 beta download. Wouldn't the FOP developers have checked these
files into the batik cvs tree in the gvt project?
2) I'm confused in that, it seems the only way to convert SVG
files to PDF files
is to download the FOP library and run the rasterizer from the FOP
batik.jar
and point the class path to the fop.jar and crimson-parser.jar files.
It seems
logical, that at some point here, I should be able to download the
batik-1.x
binary, and the FOP 0.x binary, and run the rasterizer from the batik
downloads
jar file. That would assume that the batik engine is looking for
transcoder classes
dynamically, without import statements.
It just seems weird that I have to do one of the following to support
the file formats
we need:
a) use the batik binaries to convert svg to png, and jpg's. and use the
separate
fop library for converting svg to pdf. Not that two VM's would be
needed since
the batik binaries are different
b) use the FOP binaries to do all conversion from svg to png,jpg, pdf.
Note that this is
risky as well in it's current phase because, I don't see any
indication of what "version"
of batik the fop binaries are based on.
Any clarification would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Joe
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