not being even vaguely concerned about embarrassing myself, several questions about JAI/JIMI usage with FOP.
1) from what i read, both JIMI and JAI are graphics libraries, so only one is necessary. in addition, it *appears* that JAI is the newer technology and, if it's feasible, it's the preferred package. (that is, JAI will eevntually obsolete JIMI, or am i reading that incorrectly?) 2) i downloaded the latest JAI tarball from sun, and all it contains is three .jar files, and a shared library. following my standard practice, i copied those jar files to a standard jarfile directory i maintain, and added all of them to my CLASSPATH. (i realize that the usage instructions suggest copying those files under fop/lib, but it's not clear to me *why* that would make a difference, given what i read in fop.sh) 3) regarding the shared lib, i copied it to the same location and added that directory name to LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (the JAI install instructions are unspeakably badly written -- at one point, they instruct the user to add the entire java CLASSPATH to the LD_LIBRARY_PATH, which doesn't seem at all necessary). at this point, based on what i've read, i would now be considered to have installed JAI, no? and in such a way that FOP would be able to find it. 4) when i try to transform my .fo to .pdf, eventually i get the message: [INFO] Failed to load JAI, using Jimi instead what does this mean? does it mean that FOP simply couldn't find the JAI jar files, or that it found them but, perhaps because of a misconfiguration on my part, couldn't load the appropriate classes? it's pretty crucial to know which of those errors is being identified here. so ... what have i pooched completely here? enquiring minds want to know. rday --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
