Sebastien, looks like you've missed a great resource for Apache FOP: the mailing list archive!
For example: http://fop-users.markmail.org/search/?q=pdf%20images Searching for "PDF" and "images" reveals the PDF image extension I wrote. See also: http://www.jeremias-maerki.ch/development/fop/index.html On 10.11.2008 23:39:46 Sebastien wrote: > Hi ! > I have my main XML file with all the data coming from my application > and i generate the PDF with FOP without any trouble. > But I have "third-party" files, most of them in PDF format, which I > have to import into the final PDF file. For images, I can use > fo:external-graphic, but for PDF, i'm stuck for now. > I thought it wasn't possible with XSL-FO to embed PDF, until i found this: > - fox:external-document > (http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/0.95/extensions.html#external-document) > which seems to support PDF as well as TIFF > - hope for the future : "# add Added generic structures to the PDF > library in order to support PDF file in fo:external-graphic later. > Committed by JM." > (http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/changes.html#Changes+to+Renderers+(Output+Formats)-N1040C) > > I tried both (fox:external-document and fo:external-graphic) but fop > fails for both with this message: > Reason: org.apache.xmlgraphics.image.loader.ImageException: No > ImagePreloader found for... > I'm using FOP 0.95 but i tried with the trunk's revision 712855 too. > > I didn't really expect them to work as they seem to be work in > progress, but i was wondering whether there will be a chance to have > the capability to embed PDF with fop and xslfo anytime soon ? > Otherwise, how can i proceed to achieve what i want ? > -Using an external program to merge pdf is not excluded but will be a > last resort solution as these external documents might not be always > appended or prepended to the final PDF but, instead, imported in the > middle of it, making the merge a real pain... > -Asking my users to export their documents in JPG/PNG/TIFF makes > little sense when it comes to text document... > -Converting all the PDF files into images seems to be a good > compromise but is a little bit "hackish"... > I would really love to do it in a "full XML way" (ie. with xslfo) > > Here is a similar (short) discussion that happened a while ago: > http://markmail.org/message/d42zsuppvbzldkbm > > Thanks in advance for your help. > Jeremias Maerki --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
