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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