On Friday 19 October 2001 10:55, Alex McLintock wrote:
> Can anyone give me a quick overview of jFor's capabilities? In particular I
> would like to understand whether it only looks at text based capabilities
> of FO, or whether it also can cope with (for example) table borders, GIF
> and JPG, and even SVG graphics?

jfor is not meant to be about text only, but has initially been written for a 
customer project that required only text and straight-looking tables, hence 
the perceived emphasis on text.

Andreas Putz contributed much code regarding images: PNG, JPEG, GIF, EMF and 
BMP images are supported in jfor 0.5.1.

The plan is to use Batik for SVG, but no one is working in that currently.

Table borders, among a bunch of other things, are being worked on by Chris 
Scott, self-titled "Head engineer of making it look pretty", which is 
promising...

So, even though in my view RTF is more a "structure format" than a "layout 
format", it wouldn't hurt to get better-looking documents out of jfor, and 
the current code base is certainly open to improvements!

-- 
 -- Bertrand Delacrétaz, www.codeconsult.ch
 -- jfor.org lead developer

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