PNG support in fop 0.20.3rc2

2002-02-25 Thread Sven Kitschke 

Hi all,

after switching from fop 0.20.3rc to fop 0.20.3rc2 i was
surprised about the broken PNG support. I got a lot
of error messages like
[ERROR]: Error while creating area : Error creating
FopImage object (Error creating FopImage object
(file:/path-to-bitmaps/img01.png) :
org.apache.fop.image.JimiImage

Finally i got it working - after a lot of time and
copying jimi-1.0.jar to the lib directory and
re-compiling the sources. The reason is the
conditional compiling of the JimiImage.java only if the jimi.jar
is present (build.xml).

I think, possible solutions are:
1. Please state this behavior more explicitly (You have to make
your own fop.jar if you want PNG support.),
OR
2. Make the Jimi support default - delete the conditional include
of JimiImage.java.

My favorite is option 2.

TIA, Sven


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Re: PNG support in fop 0.20.3rc2

2002-02-25 Thread Christian Geisert 

Sven Kitschke wrote:

 Hi all,
 
 after switching from fop 0.20.3rc to fop 0.20.3rc2 i was
 surprised about the broken PNG support. I got a lot
 of error messages like
 [ERROR]: Error while creating area : Error creating
 FopImage object (Error creating FopImage object
 (file:/path-to-bitmaps/img01.png) :
 org.apache.fop.image.JimiImage
 
 Finally i got it working - after a lot of time and
 copying jimi-1.0.jar to the lib directory and
 re-compiling the sources. The reason is the
 conditional compiling of the JimiImage.java only if the jimi.jar
 is present (build.xml).
 
 I think, possible solutions are:
 1. Please state this behavior more explicitly (You have to make
 your own fop.jar if you want PNG support.),


It is mentioned in lib/readme ;-)
We should probably add some release notes ..

 OR
 2. Make the Jimi support default - delete the conditional include
 of JimiImage.java.


This isn't possible because of licensing reasons
(don't ask me for details ;-)

3. Use another library

 My favorite is option 2.


Short term solution is 1.

 TIA, Sven

Christian


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