Re: gif images in rtf-files

[Cag Onganer]

Hi,

This discussion reminded me about the royalties on GIF. And I checked it out in;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GIF

It seems that the Unisys patent expired in 2003 and IBM patent on LZW will expire in 2006.

Good luck Sascha,
Cag Onganer


Jeremias Maerki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Yes, convert the GIF into a PNG. :-) The RTF output support currently
doesn't have code to convert certain bitmap formats into the ones
supported by RTF. The only exception is SVG where we hacked in initial
support to internally convert the SVG into a PNG. To make GIFs work,
we'd need to add some code that encodes decoded images as PNGs for the
image formats that are not directly supported by RTF. I can give you
pointers if you'd like to implement this yourself and send a patch.

On 09.01.2006 16:29:10 Sascha Iseli wrote:
> hello
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> i use the 0.91svn fop-version and i tried to render a gif image in a rtf
> and a pdf file. The pdf-file looks very well, but in the rtf-file there is
> insteand of the gif-image the following errormessage:
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> org.apache.fop.render.rtf.rtflib.rtfdoc.RtfExternalGraphic$ExternalGraphicException:
> The tag does not support gif - image type
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> i used the basic-example images.fo or the following code:
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> master-name="content"
> page-height="29.7cm"
> page-width="21cm">
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> exists for this problem a workaround?
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> regards,
> sascha


Jeremias Maerki


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