Hi John, I don't know much about SVG. What exactly do you mean by using StreamLine ? Is it a process to turn a bitmap into vector based graphics ? Can you give me more details about the solution you used ?
Thanks Pascal > Pascal, > > I had a problem similar to this. I scanned in a > person's signature and opened it in Illustrator, then > saved it as SVG. Viewing the SVG file in IE and in > Illustrator it looked fine, but in my pdf it was too > large. I then decided to convert the bitmap to a vector > image using Streamline. After the conversion, I saved > it again in Illustrator as an SVG. After this, it > looked fine. > > I know this isn't the most technically satisfying > answer, but it may temporarily solve your problem. > > Hope this helps, > John Fox > Atlanta > > http://www.marymakes.com >> Hi all, >> >> I am trying to fit a barcode image into a FOP 0.20.3 document (PDF). >> The image is much bigger in the PDF (screen or printed) than when i >> view it into an imaging tool. >> I have a constraint on the barcode image that make it impossible for >> the width to be less than about 250 pixels (I need to put 17 >> characters on this barcode). I can decrease this value a bit but not >> much. >> By reading the resources pages, I figured out that FOP was running at >> a fixed 'dots per inch' value (Actually 72 dpi). >> I looked at the source code and found org.apache.fop.svg.PdfTranscoder >> and org.apache.fop.svg.SVGElement seem to handle this issue. >> I have tried to hack these values using the following formula: >> >> value = 1/dpi-value*2.54. >> >> But it does not scale down. In fact, I am wondering if SVG is really >> involved in scaling the image (I use an fo:external-graphic). >> I also tried setting content-width and content-height to 50% but then >> FOP complains that "No conversion is defined". Seems to be it won't >> get the % character. >> Can anyone with similar experience help ? >> >> Thanks in advance >> >> Pascal >> >> >>
