It seems to be getting worse, not better :-(
putting the xmlgraphics-commons.jar into the class path did not help.
I modified the fop 0.95 build.xml as follows...
(all in one jar patternset)
<!-- next line replaced by following MJ 14/11/2008 -->
<!--include name="org/apache/xmlgraphics/util/io/**"/-->
<include name="org/apache/xmlgraphics/util/**"/>
<!-- next line added by MJ 14/11/2008 -->
<include name="org/apache/xmlgraphics/image/**"/>
This jar, when copied as before, produced a load of errors, as below...
...
ov 14, 2008 3:18:48 PM org.apache.fop.fonts.autodetect.FontInfoFinder find
SEVERE: Unable to load font file: file:/System/Library/Fonts/????.ttf.
Reason: TrueType font is not supported:
file:/System/Library/Fonts/????.ttf
Nov 14, 2008 3:18:48 PM org.apache.fop.fonts.truetype.TTFFile readCMAP
SEVERE: Unsupported TrueType font: Unicode cmap table not present. Aborting
Nov 14, 2008 3:18:48 PM org.apache.fop.fonts.autodetect.FontInfoFinder find
SEVERE: Unable to load font file: file:/System/Library/Fonts/????.ttf.
Reason: TrueType font is not supported:
file:/System/Library/Fonts/????.ttf
...
success
obviously, the pdf doesn't respect the font spec in the style sheet.
Furthermore, its treatment of text on a path is no better than before;
viz three textPaths are rendered, out of around 100.
I expect it's my own silly fault, but I'm not encouraged at the moment :-(
Thank God it's Friday!
2008/11/14 Jeremias Maerki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Oh, I didn't think about that. Sorry. Just include
> xmlgraphics-commons.jar in the classpath, too. Those classes are not
> folded into the allinone JAR because Batik is expected to add this
> dependency soon. HTH
>
> On 14.11.2008 13:29:25 Martin Jacobson wrote:
>> I expect I'm being really stupid, but I have been using the
>> batik-rasterizer.jar to test the conversion, as follows...
>>
>> Martin:batik-1.7 martin$ java -jar batik-rasterizer.jar -bg 0.4.12.25
>> -m application/pdf -d ~/Desktop/processMP.pdf ~/Desktop/processMP.svg
>> About to transcode 1 SVG file(s)
>>
>> Converting processMP.svg to /Users/martin/Desktop/processMP.pdf ... ...
>> success
>>
>> but then, I do this
>>
>> Martin:batik-1.7 martin$ mv lib/pdf-transcoder.jar lib/pdf-transcoder.jar.old
>> Martin:batik-1.7 martin$ mv lib/fop-transcoder-allinone.jar
>> lib/pdf-transcoder.jar
>>
>> and this happens
>>
>> Martin:batik-1.7 martin$ java -jar batik-rasterizer.jar -bg 0.4.12.25
>> -m application/pdf -d ~/Desktop/processMP.pdf ~/Desktop/processMP.svg
>> Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError:
>> org/apache/xmlgraphics/image/loader/ImageContext
>> at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method)
>> at java.lang.Class.forName(Class.java:164)
>> at
>> org.apache.batik.apps.rasterizer.DestinationType.getTranscoder(DestinationType.java:96)
>> at
>> org.apache.batik.apps.rasterizer.SVGConverter.execute(SVGConverter.java:690)
>> at org.apache.batik.apps.rasterizer.Main.execute(Main.java:938)
>> at org.apache.batik.apps.rasterizer.Main.main(Main.java:992)
>> Martin:batik-1.7 martin$
>>
>> Any clue? The batik build.xml doesn't make batik-rasterizer, so I'm
>> not sure how to progress. If I should be bugging the batik people,
>> please tell me!
>>
>> thanks
>> Martin
>>
>> 2008/11/13 Jeremias Maerki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>> > Martin,
>> >
>> > you will find that text rendering to PDF has improved a lot since the
>> > last Batik release. If you remove the pdf-transcoder.jar from the
>> > classpath and instead add FOP 0.95 (including dependencies) [1], you'll
>> > get virtually all text rendered as text instead of shapes. Please try it
>> > out, and if it doesn't work to your satisfaction, I'll try to get you up
>> > to speed to make further improvements.
>> >
>> > [1] You can also download the 0.95 or Trunk sources and build
>> > fop-transcoder-allinone.jar yourself(generated by default) which is
>> > basically the equivalent of pdf-transcoder.jar.
>> >
>> > On 13.11.2008 17:16:02 Martin Jacobson wrote:
>> >> I am a newbie on this list, so please forgive me if this has been
>> >> discussed before (I found nothing in the archive, however)...
>> >>
>> >> I have a cartographic application and I want to generate the output in
>> >> PDF format. For many reasons, I am using SVG as an intermediate
>> >> format, and I have been using the batik-rasterizer to convert to PDF.
>> >>
>> >> batik-rasterizer relies on FOP code for the pdf conversion, which is
>> >> why I'm here.
>> >>
>> >> It all works, with the notable exception of road names, which are
>> >> implemented in SVG as text on a path. I have read that this conversion
>> >> isn't in the current version of FOP. Is anyone working on this? If so,
>> >> what state is it in? If not, can someone tell me where I should start
>> >> from if I were to try implementing it myself? [I'm an experienced Java
>> >> developer, but I know v.little about PDF, and nothing about the fop
>> >> codebase]
>> >>
>> >> Thanks,
>> >> Martin
>> >>
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Jeremias Maerki
>> >
>
>
>
> Jeremias Maerki
>
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