On Mon, 12 May 2003, John Marshall wrote: > I do not know what JAI or JIMI are, or whether they will ever concern > me, but if the new one works, then complaining about the old one is a > waste of everybody's time and sheer bad manners.
i apologize for your having had to wade through that, but to address that issue: * JIMI and JAI are two different image libraries you can download from Sun that allow you to embed graphics images in various formats into your PDF document (that is, images whose formats are not already natively supported by FOP). so if you get around to working with graphical images, i suspect you'll need one of them sooner or later. see www.apache.org/fop/graphics.html for more details. * it is not strictly true that if the new one works, it's not worth complaining about the old one. as has been explained to me, if FOP is built with JAI support, JIMI support will not be invoked even if it's necessary for rendering a particular format that JAI does not handle. which seems to suggest that you have to choose between one or the other, as you can't have both at the same time, that's all. i'm hoping that explanation is reasonably accurate. again, sorry for the earlier bandwidth. rday --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
