Tough one.
Aggregating I think would open up all kinds of issues... Lets say we treat each page as a separate image to be imported. If each page is treated as an external graphic to be imported, could we not add as many areas as there are pages in the tiff/graphic, and push the rest of the content down the flow?
Is this even possible? The fo document would have just one:
<fo:block><fo:external-graphic src=''/></fo:block>
entry for the graphic to be imported, but could it be mapped to n number of areas, to match n number of pages in the graphic ?
This would be one of the user beware features. If you graphic contains page breaks, we will produce a new area for it, and that area would inherit all of the properties of the original block.
Dunno what do you think?
Rob
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From: J.Pietschmann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2003 2:48 PM
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Subject: Re: Image embedding question(s)
Rob Stote wrote:
> Is it possible to insert a multi-page tiff into a PDF or PS file.
No. You'll have to produce a separate file for each page and include them individually.
How do you think should multi-page TIFF files be handled? Should the pages be aggregated, and in which way, should breaks allowed between renderings of the various pages, or... ? The FO spec is not concerned with this kind of structured graphics, they assume a graphic will created a single rectangular area and that's it. Without a good idea how FOP should behave support for multi-page graphics is hard to implement.
J.Pietschmann
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