How are the PDFs generated? If they are generated by Apache FOP you should try if you cannot just pass through the SVG in which case they are embedded as vector images. That way you can zoom in all the way you want without making the images any bigger. Just a thought.
On 06.01.2008 11:09:14 Martin Polley wrote: > Hi there, > > I have a set of images that I am rasterizing using Batik. (The SVG > images are referenced by DITA XML documents that are processed using > the DITA Open Toolkit with a plugin that calls Batik to rasterize the > SVGs (using the Rasterizer Ant task).) > > My problem is that several images are large flowcharts. When I > rasterize them at their current size, the text is too small to read. I > could simply increase the size of the SVG images, but the same XML > sources (and SVG files) are also used to create a PDF version of the > document. If I make the images any bigger, they will not fit on the > PDF page. (In PDF, it does not matter that they are small--readers can > just zoom in.) > > Is there anything I can do (in terms of Batik parameters) to increase > the size of my images? > > I don't mind increasing the size of all my images by the same amount > (though this is not ideal). The only thing I have tried that changes > the size of the rasterized images is to explicitly specify width, but > then all my images (even the smallest ones) come out at the same > width. I have tried changing the DPI parameter, but this has no effect > on the size of the rasterized images. > > The only other approach I can think of would be to apply an XSLT > transform to the SVGs before they get rasterized, but I think this is > a little beyond my meager XSLT skills. > > Thanks in advance, > > -- > Martin Polley > Technical Communicator > +972 52 3864280 > <http://capcloud.com/> > Jeremias Maerki --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
