Hi Jing How you approach that depends a bit on what information you need to pass from FO to your image generator. If you can fit everything in an URI (fo:external-graphic), then you could do this: - Subclass javax.xml.transform.Source and provide a BufferedImage through it. - Write a URI resolver that turns the URI into such an "BufferedImageSource". - Then you'll need an ImagePreloader that works on that BufferedImageSource. - Finally, an ImageLoader will wrap the BufferedImage in an ImageBuffered instance which FOP then can consume.
Details for the image loading framework are found here: http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/commons/image-loader.html I know that sounds quite complicated but at least this would be something that could even be placed in XML Graphics Commons in case someone wants to do something similar. The easier approach is to just encode the BufferedImage into a PNG in the URIResolver and return a StreamSource. That doesn't require messing with the image loader framework but you also lose performance because the PNG has to be encoded and re-parsed immediately after that. If, OTOH, you have some XML content that you turn into a BufferedImage (fo:instream-foreign-object), an ImageConverter (also from the image loading frameworker) and again an ImagePreloader should do the trick to convert your XML-Format to an ImageGraphics2D or ImageBuffered. The ImagePreloader is mostly needed to establish the natural size of the image. A note on ImageGraphics2D: if you actually paint the image using Java2D/Graphics2D, you might want to consider not directly creating a BufferedImage but an ImageGraphics2D because that would allow you to retain a vector graphic image which can look much nicer in a PDF than a bitmap image. The image loader framework automatically converts a Java2D image to a bitmap if the consumer doesn't support vector graphics. Examples for plug-ins for the image loading framework can be found in the following places: Barcode4J, JEuclid and my PDF plug-in for FOP. HTH On 12.07.2011 20:03:06 Li, Jing wrote: > Dear All, > > Recently I am searching an answer about the callback mechanism when loading > images. > > I am working on a project that creates a report as PDF format, using > xml + xml-fo. I am thinking Apache FOP might be a way to go. But I have hard > time to find the callback mechanism. In my report, I have a lot of > charts and images that created as BufferedImage on the fly that need to > put in the pdf file. They are not static image files, read via io. > Ideally I can wrote customize image reader that I can plug-in to FOP, > and use customize URIResovler to invoke it? > > Anyone can help me point to the right direction? > > Thank you in advance. > > Jing Jeremias Maerki --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: fop-users-unsubscr...@xmlgraphics.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: fop-users-h...@xmlgraphics.apache.org
