Hi Jeremias,

Thanks for committing the patch.

> BTW, while working on this it occurred to me that with the embedding
> functionality, we're actually making page segment handling overly complicated:
> we always need a replacement image that the layout image is actually working
> with. I'm not saying that this addition was a bad one, but we should think
> about making it easier in the future, namely by supporting AFP page segments

True

> directly through fo:external-graphic. The first step here would be native
> embedding support (just reading the intrinsic size of the page segment). A
In the case when the page segment is not available at AFP generation
time (to be referenced), maybe another method of specifying the image
metrics, rather than a placeholder image?  For standard images like a
company logo etc, the metrics maybe easier to distribute than this?
> second step could even be decoding page segments and supporting them for other
> output formats. Just a thought.
..and perhaps compressing if we can support  that in the future!

Cheers,

Pete


On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 8:48 AM,  <[email protected]> wrote:
> https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=49379
>
> Jeremias Maerki <[email protected]> changed:
>
>           What    |Removed                     |Added
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>             Status|NEW                         |RESOLVED
>         Resolution|                            |FIXED
>
> --- Comment #3 from Jeremias Maerki <[email protected]> 2010-10-07 03:48:24 
> EDT ---
> Patch applied with modifications as discussed:
> http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=1005350&view=rev
>
> Thanks, Peter, and sorry for the long time it took to process your patch!
>
> BTW, while working on this it occurred to me that with the embedding
> functionality, we're actually making page segment handling overly complicated:
> we always need a replacement image that the layout image is actually working
> with. I'm not saying that this addition was a bad one, but we should think
> about making it easier in the future, namely by supporting AFP page segments
> directly through fo:external-graphic. The first step here would be native
> embedding support (just reading the intrinsic size of the page segment). A
> second step could even be decoding page segments and supporting them for other
> output formats. Just a thought.
>
> --
> Configure bugmail: https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/userprefs.cgi?tab=email
> ------- You are receiving this mail because: -------
> You are the assignee for the bug.
>

Reply via email to