The company I'm integration ofBiz for needed to do a custom shipping document with a peel-off shipping label. So I went down the route of using the FOP PDF integration. This turned into a sort of nightmare by the time I was done.
The problem was that the GIF/PNG returned by DHL has a transparent background. The FOP generator doesn't support transparencies (documented on their site). So I ended up integrating a image library that added a white background color. At the same time I cropped the label to remove the "cut or fold here" line since it wasn't necessary on the custom peel-off. I used a library found on sourcforge (http://schmidt.devlib.org/jiu/index.html) but now thinking about switching over to the Sun image libraries... Looking for feedback before I submit to JIRA. Regards, John
