Pascal, I'm sorry. Streamline is an Adobe product that converts bitmap files to vector files. I'm sure there are other products that do the same thing, I'm just familiar with Streamline.
You and I are in the same boat as far as not knowing much about SVG. I understand the concept behind it, but never really dig into the nuts and bolts of the xml behind it. I use the new Illustrator(10) to do all of the dirty work. Because FOP doesn't support EPS (yet), the best way for designers to use sharp images in their pdfs is to use SVG and creating them in Illustrator suites me. I'm looking for cheaper solutions, if anyone knows of any, please let me know. Thanks, John Atlanta http://www.marymakes.com > 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 > >> > >> > >> > > >
