Thanks to all for the advice, but I'm afraid I've already gone down those paths.
We could indeed translate our .eps graphics into .svg, and have in fact considerred this. One can use either Mayura or Illustrator for that purpose. However, it is an extremely long task given the number of graphics we have. It also requires that we have in place 1) An XML editor that can validate large DocBook documents which use many levels of file entities, and also can display SVG graphics. 2) An SVG to gif or jpg convertor that works reliably in batch mode. Batik might fit those requirements. The simplest approach would be to find an FO processor that can handle .eps. I'm somewhat surprised that this isn't built into FOP, given that it is designed to convert FO to PDF. Wouldn't it be logical for such a tool to therefore support PostScript graphics? Regards, Bill Lawrence -----Original Message----- From: Alex McLintock [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2001 11:18 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Alternative to SVG --- Bill Lawrence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There are several reasons for not converting the .eps graphics to a > bitmapped format: Yes - I agree, we had a bitmap logo which looks fine when being previewed on screen, but using an SVG vector graphic was much clearer when printed out. I didn't spot whether you had looked into using Adobe Illustrator 9 to load the EPS files and then save them as SVG. It may not do so perfectly but it is worth looking into. I don't know whether it can be automated though if you really do have thousands of illustrations.... You *might* need to do a little bit of tweeking of the SVG to get it to use the right namespaces and such like but I am sure that you could automate that... The following URL may help you find other converters... http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/SVG-Implementations.htm8#convert Goodluck -------------------------------------------- PS My FOP FAQ seems to be down. That'll teach me to put stuff on a box without production level support. Sorry folks. Feel free to shout at me by email. It looks like I've volunteered myself to improve Apache's Official FAQ system so maybe we'll move this off of my machine onto an official Apache one. Alex ===== Alex McLintock [EMAIL PROTECTED] Open Source Consultancy in London OpenWeb Analysts Ltd, http://www.OWAL.co.uk/ --- SF and Computing Book News and Reviews: http://news.diversebooks.com/ Get Your XML T-Shirt <t-shirt/> at http://www.inversity.co.uk/ COMPETITION : http://news.diversebooks.com/article.pl?sid=01/10/08/1947255 ____________________________________________________________ Nokia Game is on again. Go to http://uk.yahoo.com/nokiagame/ and join the new all media adventure before November 3rd. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
