By the way. It is possible to transform to TIFF and many other formats from PDF format using ghostscript.
Though it's not strictly Java solution. http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/doc/AFPL/get800.htm ----- Original Message ----- From: "Oleg Tkachenko" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, February 23, 2003 10:09 AM Subject: FOP output to TIFF > > X-MIMETrack: Itemize by SMTP Server on XENA/MCN(Release 5.0.9a |January 7, 2002) at 23/02/2003 > 10:11:12, > Serialize by Router on XENA/MCN(Release 5.0.9a |January 7, 2002) at 23/02/2003 > 10:11:13, > Serialize complete at 23/02/2003 10:11:13 > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed > > Hello! > > "David Blevins" <david.blevins () visi ! com> wrote: > > Now I have my first question, so here goes. What is the recommended > > approach to generate a TIFF output: using the SVGRenderer then > > transcoding to TIFF with batik; using the TIFFRenderer written by Oleg? > Hard question. TIFFRenderer has some flaws: it is not thread-safe, because > AWTRenderer isn't. Another its problem is that all generated page images are > held in memory. Both issues I hope will be fixed in FOP 1.0dev. So may be > SVGRenderer is a prefered approach at the moment. > > > The TIFFRenderer works, however the outputted TIFF is white text on > > black background (should be the other way around). Maybe there is > > something I need to configure correctly. > Well, which TIFF viewer are you using? AFAIK, there is a great mess amongst > TIFF viewers what is white and what is black in b/w FAX compressed images, > e.g. consider given black-and-white TIFF image, Adobe Photoshop and Windows > Imaging will show it differently black on white or white on black. > TIFFRenderer uses JAI encoder, which seems to be agree with Adobe in this > question, so I always rely on Photoshop and Alternatiff plugin and never got > inverted image. > Actually I've been thinking about introducing such a parameter to TIFFRenderer > to allow control over that. Ok, granted, will try this week. > > > There also doesn't seem to any new versions of the TIFFRenderer. The > > latest I can find is 0.9 from May last year. Is this there an updated, > > unreleased version somewhere? > Well, I just don't see how can I make it better, it's quite simple wrapper, > which heavily rely on JAI encoder and AWTRenderer. Now, when I'm FOP committer > I'd better be focused on how to make FOP itself better, TIFFRenderer will > benefit from it also. > > -- > Oleg Tkachenko > Multiconn Technologies, Israel > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
