AW: AW: What should I be doing ?

2003-12-20 Thread J.U. Anderegg
Christian Ziesemer wrote: > > Do you know other projects dealing with high quality typesetting with > Java or if Java 1.5 will bring improvements? I'm thinking about writing > my diploma thesis about how to extend the current/implement a > typesetting API for Java. Batik extends text attributes wi

Re: AW: What should I be doing ?

2003-12-19 Thread Ben Galbraith
Do you know other projects dealing with high quality typesetting with Java or if Java 1.5 will bring improvements? I'm thinking about writing my diploma thesis about how to extend the current/implement a typesetting API for Java. The iText project exposes an API for obtaining metrics (including k

Re: AW: What should I be doing ?

2003-12-19 Thread Christian Ziesemer
Am Mi, den 17.12.2003 schrieb J.U. Anderegg um 07:53: > o Java supports TrueType, OPI and Type1 fonts > o XSL properties : Java TextAttribute's = 1:1 > - TextAttribute maps give a binary object representation for XSL font > properties in Java (more Float's than int's) > - Java2D 1.4 does not proce

AW: What should I be doing ?

2003-12-17 Thread J.U. Anderegg
It might be helpful to take the renderer programmer's view: - A meaningful renderer interface has to be specified now, i.e. the representation of pages either in memory or serialized. More supported XSL properties lead to bigger storage requirements. - Renderers take over pages consisting from so

Re: What should I be doing?

2003-12-16 Thread Glen Mazza
More patches, please, particularly in layout and renderers--run the example files on FOP 0.20.5 and 1.0dev--catch the deltas (there's dozens) and send us patches to the 1.0 code, one-by-one. I'm currently working on converting FOP from strings to int's. Finn's work & Alt-Design has given me a qui

What should I be doing ?

2003-12-16 Thread John Austin
As I mentioned off-line to another list member, I have some questions about the progress of the current Fop development effort. So far: i) I have made a few measurements and reconfirmed some other peoples opinions about possible areas for improvement. ii) I have also proof-read some code from