Ralph,
Your idea of "Fixing the awt renderer" is the correct one. After a
deep thought, I too came to the conclusion that instead of writing a PDF
renderer, if we can tune up the AWT renderer, it will be great. The main
problem with AWT renderer now is the heavy memory it uses. We need to find
the source of memory drain and tune it.
We need to come up with the basic plan for this. Also, we have to
first look and summarize the current issues with AWT renderer and step
accordingly.
Ramana.
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From: Ralph LaChance [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, July 29, 2002 3:06 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [PDF Viewer] Utility request
I agree with Oleg's last sentencetotally - which I translate roughly to
"lets fix the
awt renderer"
In fact, I'd add a 3rd (or 2 1/2) user - the one who wishes to go directly
from
xml to a printer via fop.
My colleagues here and I have inserted several changes to tweak spacings,
borders,
and so on over the past two years, and several other contributors have
refined the awt renderer over even more.
Recently, I got stumped by a problem in that java's font engine rasterizes
glyphs
differently depending on whether the target was the on-screen graphics
context
or a printer context. (see archives) - anyone who could help unsnarl that
mess
would be making a noteworthy contribution.
At 07:59 AM 7/28/02, you wrote:
>Matthew L. Avizinis wrote:
> It might also be helpful to recognize that as FOP becomes more popular
there
>>are distinctly _two_ groups of "users" emerging. The first group has been
>>using FOP from the beginning and those are the Java developers who use FOP
>>to create some other end product. Recently I've noticed that there are
more
>>people attempting to use FOP who are simply people who want to use FOP as
an
>>end product (more of an FO viewer) and want it to fulfill the role of a
>>product like X-Smiles (which unfortunately still falls far short of its
goal
>>of being a good FO viewer).
>
>I believe AWT previewer someday in the future will become some kind of FO
>IDE and afaik even nowadays somebody in the team has something to donate.
>
>--
>Oleg Tkachenko
>Multiconn International, Israel
>
>
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