RE: TIFF image rendering in pdf is lossy

2003-07-29 Thread Manuel Mall
lto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 29 July 2003 20:41 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: TIFF image rendering in pdf is lossy Thanx Manuel, The problem turned out to be a utility class using JAI that preprocesses the image and, if image format not specified, defaults to JPEG ... NASTY. For some reason

Re: TIFF image rendering in pdf is lossy

2003-07-29 Thread Angus Stewart
Thanx Manuel, The problem turned out to be a utility class using JAI that preprocesses the image and, if image format not specified, defaults to JPEG ... NASTY. For some reason, too, JAI will not read a tiff that we compress using group 3 1D or 2D encoding. For the time being will continue to us

Re: TIFF image rendering in pdf is lossy

2003-07-29 Thread Angus Stewart
It would seem that the real issue is that some code I was using was doing an implicit convert of the tif image to jpeg before the transformation took place. Sorry to bother. Angus Stewart wrote: > > FOP 0.20.5rc2 > > ISSUE: TIFF image rendering in pdf is lossy. > > QUESTION 1: Is this a confi

RE: TIFF image rendering in pdf is lossy

2003-07-28 Thread Manuel Mall
Angus, have you got JAI (Java Advanced Imaging) in your FOP environment (see http://xml.apache.org/fop/graphics.html)? If not that may be the problem as the TIFF support relies on the presence of JAI. If JAI is not available it defaults to using JIMI and that again will DCT encode your images as