Re: Getting rid of JIMI

2004-01-25 Thread Jeremias Maerki
On 25.01.2004 12:46:08 Thomas DeWeese wrote: Jeremias Maerki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Damn, you're right. I wonder why we haven't made use of this, yet. BTW, is this code from JAI (like the classes Oleg Tkachenko uses in his TIFF renderer) or is this separately developed code (ASF

Re: Getting rid of JIMI

2004-01-25 Thread J.Pietschmann
Jeremias Maerki wrote: I will probably have some time next month to write a proposal on how our two projects can move closer together to make the code sharing happen. Stuff that comes to mind immediately: - fonts, metrics, character and word width - various configuration stuff - character

Re: Getting rid of JIMI

2004-01-25 Thread Glen Mazza
--- Jeremias Maerki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I will probably have some time next month to write a proposal on how our two projects can move closer together to make the code sharing happen. Jeremias Maerki Ummm...Jeremias, remember, your recent nominations for FOP committers included

Re: Getting rid of JIMI

2004-01-25 Thread Jeremias Maerki
Noted. I will make it a point in the proposal so the Batik people will be able to comment and we can develop mechnisms to ensure quality. On 25.01.2004 18:42:20 Glen Mazza wrote: The current (lowered) committer standards on the FOP team definitely needs to be explained to the Batik team before

Re: Getting rid of JIMI

2004-01-25 Thread Glen Mazza
Very classy response. (You're getting good at knowing how to handle me... ;-) Glen --- Jeremias Maerki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Noted. I will make it a point in the proposal so the Batik people will be able to comment and we can develop mechnisms to ensure quality. On 25.01.2004 18:42:20

Getting Rid of Jimi

2004-01-24 Thread Thomas DeWeese
Hi all, It is certainly true that javax.imageio is the direction to go in the future. However, It is probably worth pointing out that you already include a PNG encoder/decoder with the FOP distribution, from Batik! org.apache.batik.ext.awt.image.codec.PNGImageEncoder

Re: Getting Rid of Jimi

2004-01-24 Thread Jeremias Maerki
Damn, you're right. I wonder why we haven't made use of this, yet. BTW, is this code from JAI (like the classes Oleg Tkachenko uses in his TIFF renderer) or is this separately developed code (ASF origin)? You know that there's a number of people who would actually be interested in creating/having

Re: Getting rid of JIMI

2004-01-23 Thread Jeremias Maerki
The ASF does see a problem. Until the FSF has clarified the relationship between linking and Java's import concept the ASF's policy is not to allow usage of LGPL packages. There are certain exceptions. For example, if you have a JAI-compatible image codec under the LPGL you could use it because

Re: Getting rid of JIMI

2004-01-23 Thread Dalibor Topic
Hi Jeremias, thanks for the quick response. Jeremias Maerki wrote: The ASF does see a problem. Until the FSF has clarified the relationship between linking and Java's import concept the ASF's policy is not to allow usage of LGPL packages. There are certain exceptions. For example, if you have a

Re: Getting rid of JIMI

2004-01-23 Thread Jeremias Maerki
No apologies required! Image IO (javax.imageio) support is not there, yet, I'm afraid. But if you created an implementation for Image IO then your idea would work. Shouldn't be very hard. Check the org.apache.fop.image package. You wouldn't need to use JIMI. Think of JIMI, JAI and ImageIO as

Getting rid of JIMI

2004-01-22 Thread Dalibor Topic
Hi, I was looking into getting FOP to run with kaffe[1] recently[2][3], and decided to have another look at it today, after gettig maven to run with kaffe. I tried to generate DocBook docuemntation for another package, and the Maven sdocbook plugin insisted on fetching jimi.jar from Sun. So

Re: Getting rid of JIMI

2004-01-22 Thread Glen Mazza
--- Dalibor Topic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If that's not the case, would it be possible to use the LGPLd code from http://catcode.com/pngencoder/ and http://www.sixlegs.com/software/png/ for the job, and dropping the dependency on JIMI completely? No, (L)GPL and the Apache licenses are

Re: Getting rid of JIMI

2004-01-22 Thread Dalibor Topic
Hi Glen, thanks for the quick reply. Glen Mazza wrote: --- Dalibor Topic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If that's not the case, would it be possible to use the LGPLd code from http://catcode.com/pngencoder/ and http://www.sixlegs.com/software/png/ for the job, and dropping the dependency on JIMI