Hi Trevor I'm a bit surprised to read this here after our e-mail exchange today. But to answer your questions:
On 09.01.2009 17:25:39 Trevor Harmon wrote: > Hi, > > I have a question about <fo:external-graphic>. What's the reason > (technical? licensing? lack of interest?) that FOP does not support > PDF as a graphic format? It seems strange that FOP supports PDF for > output but not for input. That was no requirement for a long time or nobody cared to invest the time. At some point I got funding to implement the PDF plug-in [1]. I had to use PDFBox because FOP's own PDF library is write-only. Retrofitting PDF parsing support in FOP's PDF library would have meant a lot of work. Using PDFBox was a relatively cheap shortcut. [1] http://www.jeremias-maerki.ch/development/fop/index.html > The reason I ask is because I'm trying to embed some PDF illustrations > as figures in a PDF document via FOP. What is the workaround for this? Use the PDF image plug-in [1]. > Will I just have to convert the PDFs to a format that FOP supports? That's the alternative. Jeremias Maerki --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
