Jeremias,

Thanks for your help!

As a follow-up, does the fact that Adobe has deprecated EPS embedding imply 
that one should only use SVG if vector graphics are desired for PDF output 
with FOP?

Jim

> I've recently had to fix EPS-embedding in PDF. Somehow it was broken in
> FOP Trunk.
> http://svn.apache.org/viewcvs?rev=386327&view=rev
> 
> So, if you get the source code directory from Subversion your problem
> should be fixed. Just note that Adobe has deprecated that feature
> beginning with PDF 1.4. It should not be used anymore

On Wednesday 29 March 2006 15:57, Jim Guerin wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've searched and Googled and tried many iterations of setting parameters
> but I just can't seem to find the answer to this one.
>
> I'm currently using 0.91 beta to output to PDF.  When I open the PDF file
> all of images are missing.  I'm using EPS as sources for images.
>
> I've read on the Apache Fop page that this was a limitation of Acrobat
> because it does not have a built-in postscript interpreter.  Postscript
> images would not show up in the PDF viewer but would print to a postscript
> printer.  This was also the case for 20.5.  So to get around that, I found
> the work around that somebody posted in which you run command line filters,
> pdftops, then ps2pdf, and the images would be present (though you would
> lose bookmarks in 20.5).  So I tried this same approach for 0.91 beta and
> it didn't work; my images are still missing.
>
> I checked the compliance page and did not see anything relating to this.  I
> did find a thread on the fop-users that didn't seem to be related that
> talked about setting content-height and content-width to 'scale-to-fit', so
> I tried that also but no luck.  Previously, content-height, content-width,
> height, and width were all set to auto.
>
> Here's the <snip>
>
> <fo:block text-align="center"><fo:block id="serd_fig_tx_term" keep-
> together="auto" keep-with-next="auto" space-before.minimum="0.5em"
> space-before.     optimum="1em" space-before.maximum="2em"
> space-after.minimum="0.5em" space-after.    optimum="1em"
> space-after.maximum="2em"><fo:block font-weight="bold" font-
> size="12pt" hyphenate="false" space-after.minimum="0.4em"
> space-after.optimum="0.    6em" space-after.maximum="0.8em"
> space-before.optimum="1em" space-before.minimum="0. 8em"
> space-before.maximum="1.2em"
> keep-with-next.within-column="always">Figure&#xA0; 1.&#xA0;SERDES
> Transmitter Termination</fo:block><fo:block text-align="center"><fo: 
> external-graphic src="url(images/serdes-tx-term.eps)" width="auto"
> height="auto"
> content-width="auto" content-height="auto"
> text-align="center"/></fo:block></fo:     block></fo:block>
>
> ******
>
> As I stated above, if use this exact same block and use 20.5, then the
> filters, my images will appear.  If I use 0.91 beta, then the filters, no
> images.
>
> My guess is that since 0.91 beta is more strict with interpretation that it
> doesn't like something about this block.  However I didn't see anything in
> the output with the debug switch on (I might have missed it tho!).
>
> I'm at a loss.  Is it something _really_ obvious?
>
> Regards,
>
> Jim


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