Thanks for your feedback, Peter. The bug's fixed. Jeremias Maerki
On 06.08.2007 21:58:37 Peter wrote: > Hi Jeremias, > > I am quite interested in this feature and just tried it out. Seems to work > for a lot of cases, but I ran into an issue which I guess might interest you. > > If I attempt to render > > <fo:root xmlns:fo="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format";> > <fo:layout-master-set> > <fo:simple-page-master master-name="Page" page-width="25cm" > page-height="30cm"> > <fo:region-body region-name="Body" /> > </fo:simple-page-master> > </fo:layout-master-set> > <fo:page-sequence master-reference="Page"> > <fo:flow flow-name="Body"> > <fo:block> > <fo:external-graphic > src="../Temp_PDF_in_PDF/src/documentation/content/xdocs/dev/svg/images.pdf" /> > </fo:block> > </fo:flow> > </fo:page-sequence> > </fo:root> > > > Where the images.pdf is the images.pdf that one finds after building fop, the > resulting pdf seems to be corrupt. > > Enjoy your vacation, or, more likely, I hope you enjoyed your vacation, > > Thanks, > > Peter > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Jeremias Maerki [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Monday, August 06, 2007 5:06 PM > > To: fop-dev@xmlgraphics.apache.org > > Subject: PDF in PDF (experimental) > > > > As you will have seen, I've uploaded some changes into a temporary > > branch. I've not committed them to Trunk since I've done some changes at > > the lowest level in the PDF library and I've not done very extensive > > tests (encryption etc.). I don't want to destabilize the 0.95 release in > > case I made a mistake somewhere. If anyone does more extensive tests and > > feels that the changes can safely be merged back into Trunk, feel free. > > Otherwise, I'll look into it after my holidays. > > > > I've created "PDF in PDF" support in two parts: > > 1. Changes to core FOP, mainly the PDF library and infrastructure for > > the image package and the PDF renderer. (revision 563142) > > 2. A fully separate package with only the PDF-in-PDF code (with a > > dependency on a specially patched PDFBox (didn't work out of the box for > > me). I have yet to send a patch to Ben for PDFBox. > > > > Part 2 can be downloaded from my website: > > http://www.jeremias-maerki.ch/download/fop/pdf-images/ > > > > What this enables is using PDF files as the "src" attribute of an > > fo:external-graphic when doing PDF output. This does not work for any > > other renderer. If anyone wants to experiment with it, please find more > > details/limitations in the README file in the distribution. Feedback is > > welcome. The code is to be considered experimental! > > > > The reason why I provide a separate package for the plug-in is that I > > needed to use PDFBox to parse the PDF. Of course, I can't just add a new > > dependency to FOP without consulting the team. > > > > I wanted to get this off my machine before I finally go off-line (long > > holidays until the end of September). > > > > Have fun, > > Jeremias Maerki > > > > > > > > On 06.08.2007 16:03:02 jeremias wrote: > > > Author: jeremias > > > Date: Mon Aug 6 07:03:00 2007 > > > New Revision: 563142 > > > > > > URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=rev&rev=563142 > > > Log: > > > Preparations for supporting "PDF in PDF" (PDF file as "src" attribute > > for fo:external-graphic). > > > > > > Changes in the PDF library: > > > - Support all basic PDF objects as generic classes. > > > - Reworked some of the PDF classes to use the new generic classes > > instead of writing to StringBuffers everywhere (less code, less error- > > prone in the long run). > > > - Finished Form XObject support. > > > - Manage Image XObjects together with Form XObjects in PDFDocument > > > - Tweaked the filters so externally applied filters can more easily be > > handled. > > > > > > Changes to image package: > > > - Added a very simple and temporary dynamic registration for image > > implementations (in order to plug in external image implementations) > > > ("temporary" since the image package redesign is still on the task > > list for this year) > > > > > > Changes to the PDF Renderer: > > > - Added a PDFImageHandler interface which can be used to create > > arbitrary XObjects (in the case of PDF-in-PDF: Form XObjects). >
