Re: [PROPOSAL] multi-page image extension for FOP

2007-12-21 Thread The Web Maestro
On 12/20/07, Jeremias Maerki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've been playing with the idea for some time and the time has come to > bring this up. I would like to write an FO extension which allows to > insert a multi-page document into an FO document, so each page produces > a new page of exactly t

Re: [PROPOSAL] multi-page image extension for FOP

2007-12-21 Thread Jeremias Maerki
On 21.12.2007 16:01:22 Vincent Hennebert wrote: > Hi, > > In theory this would be more logical to finish implementing the features > that the spec does describe. However, I can hear the business > motivations behind this proposal. I have nothing against it, I just > won’t try and make a big effort

Re: [PROPOSAL] multi-page image extension for FOP

2007-12-21 Thread Jeremias Maerki
FYI, I've now already got working code for FOP Trunk including documentation but without multi-page support which I'll add in the image package branch. I know it's nearly weekend and Christmas but I'd still like to commit this by next Wednesday or Thursday. So if anyone has anything against this pl

Re: [PROPOSAL] multi-page image extension for FOP

2007-12-21 Thread Vincent Hennebert
Hi, In theory this would be more logical to finish implementing the features that the spec does describe. However, I can hear the business motivations behind this proposal. I have nothing against it, I just won’t try and make a big effort to provide support (either dev or user). So this is a +0 f

Re: [PROPOSAL] multi-page image extension for FOP

2007-12-20 Thread Chris Bowditch
Jeremias Maerki wrote: I've been playing with the idea for some time and the time has come to bring this up. I would like to write an FO extension which allows to insert a multi-page document into an FO document, so each page produces a new page of exactly the same dimensions as the bitmap image

Re: [PROPOSAL] multi-page image extension for FOP

2007-12-20 Thread Manuel Mall
On Thursday 20 December 2007 18:38, Jeremias Maerki wrote: >Benefits of the extension: > - It is mostly useful for multi-page TIFF files (scanned documents > and faxes) and PDFs (with my PDF-in-PDF plug-in). > - It removes the necessity to post-process the generated output file > (for example wit

[PROPOSAL] multi-page image extension for FOP

2007-12-20 Thread Jeremias Maerki
I've been playing with the idea for some time and the time has come to bring this up. I would like to write an FO extension which allows to insert a multi-page document into an FO document, so each page produces a new page of exactly the same dimensions as the bitmap image in the final format (by d