Hi Dietrich,
On Jun 6, 2012, at 9:51 AM, Dietrich Streifert wrote: > > Hi Alexios, > > Thank you for your reply! > > Do you remember a few keywords of the thread subject you mentioned? This > would be helpfull. The thread starts here: http://markmail.org/message/snngnv57v7vejyqu It focuses on font issues, it will not help making the plugin discoverable but in the 9 messages there was some general information that I found useful when generating big output PDF files. > > Some more informations where I try to integrate the fop-pdf-images plug-in: > > It is a XML-RPC-server which, among other functions (lucene index and search > etc.), does the transformation of an xml-fo file to pdf. > > In order to have all needed libraries (jars) within the resulting server > jar, the build.xml file unrars all needed jars (including fop, xmlgraphics, > batik, avalon,...) into a temporary directory and packs them afterwards into > a single jar. > > As some jars include additional files within the META-INF directory (eg. the > services directory), all those files get mixed up in the resulting META-INF > directory and are (potentially) overwritten by subsequent files with the > same name during the unrar process. > > As you said that simply adding the fop-pdf-images.jar to the classpath of > your JBoss application with the embedded fop worked, I now suspect that the > above build method (unraring all and pack again) breaks the plug-in > mechanism. > > To blame (or not?) the used software: it is the java ilServer from the ILIAS > e-Lerning platform (http://www.ilias.de). > > If anyone has a comment: you're very welcome! > > Regards > Dietrich > > > Hi Dietrich, > > The FOP pdf images plugin works well for me when using FOP as an embedded > library that runs inside an application server (JBoss). It only required to > put the fop-pdf-images.jar in the classpath, no code changes. With big > volumes (thousands of pages per output PDF), we have noticed that it takes > time to open in Adobe Reader and to rip it on production printing servers. > In the past few months, there was an interesting thread with technical > information related to why this is happening. If you don't have big volumes, > it is working really well. > > Alexios Giotis > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://old.nabble.com/help-using-fop-pdf-images-plug-in-in-an-embedded-fop-tp33964386p33968246.html > Sent from the FOP - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: fop-users-unsubscr...@xmlgraphics.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: fop-users-h...@xmlgraphics.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: fop-users-unsubscr...@xmlgraphics.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: fop-users-h...@xmlgraphics.apache.org
