Re: PDFTranscoder very resource intensive!

2004-05-27 Thread David Bullock
On Thu, 27 May 2004, Peter Becker wrote: > Hi David, > > I haven't tried the PDF transcoder of Batik, but a while ago I played > with iText and FreeHEP's offering > (http://java.freehep.org/vectorgraphics/index.html). The latter did a > reasonable job for the task I had, the only problem I had was

Re: PDFTranscoder very resource intensive!

2004-05-26 Thread Peter Becker
Hi David, I haven't tried the PDF transcoder of Batik, but a while ago I played with iText and FreeHEP's offering (http://java.freehep.org/vectorgraphics/index.html). The latter did a reasonable job for the task I had, the only problem I had was that rotated text did sometimes not get displayed

PDFTranscoder very resource intensive!

2004-05-26 Thread David Bullock
Hi all, I realise that the PDF transcoder is imported from the FOP project, but since Batik distributes it, Batik users might have some relevant information. My problem is that doing PDFTranscoder.transcode(src, dest) takes a very long time relative to constructing an SVG DOM and building its cor