Thanks for the hints. Comments inline... On 22.01.2008 12:10:49 Vincent Hennebert wrote: > Hi Jeremias, > > Nice job. I’d have a few comments/questions. > > I’ll criticise a bit in the next paragraph, but please don’t feel > offended and take it as “positive criticism”. I realise it’s not easy to > write doc, and it’s already great to take the time for it. But since I’m > lacking of skills in that area I can’t improve it by myself. > > I think it’s not clear from a user point of vue whether JAI is no longer > needed or not. In the introduction it’s written that “Jimi and JAI are > no longer supported”. But footnote 1 in the following section states: > “Requires the presence of JAI [...]”. > > I understand it as: the JAI API will no longer be used directly, but > only through the generic Java Image I/O API. Is that right? Maybe the > text could be re-phrased a bit.
Yes. I made a note on the difference. > That said, does a user really need this information? Maybe it’s enough > to say that Jimi is no longer needed, and that JAI remains an optional > dependency that adds support for more image formats. Without entering > too much the details of code changes. JAI is no longer a dependency, not even an optional one. I haven't reimplemented a plug-in for it. JAI Image I/O Tools is an optional add-on for any Java >=1.4. FOP can simply make use of the additional codecs through Java's ImageIO API if it is present. > Also, build.xml still contains checks about the presence of Jimi (and > JAI). I guess it’s no longer required and can be removed now? Yes. > > <snip/> > > - <section id="svg-pdf-text"> > > - <title>Placing SVG Text into PDF and PostScript</title> > > - <p>If possible, Batik will use normal PDF or PostScript text when > > inserting text. It does > > -this by checking if the text can be drawn normally and the font is > > -supported. This example svg <a href="../dev/svg/text.svg">text.svg</a> / > > -<!--link href="../dev/svg/text.pdf"-->text.pdf<!--/link--> > > -shows how various types and effects with text are handled. > > -Note that tspan and outlined text are not yet implemented.</p> > > Is that still true with your recent work on improving text support for > SVG images? Yes. SVG fonts are still painted as shapes and certain other very special SVG cases which I don't remember right now. Jeremias Maerki
