not been updated
since 1998 shows, that adobe is not interested in providing a real solution
for java.
Markus
# -Ursprüngliche Nachricht-
# Von: Oleg Tkachenko [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
# Gesendet am: Samstag, 16. November 2002 18:41
# An: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
# Betreff: Re: Viewing PDF without
Müller, Markus wrote:
when viewing PDFs with embedded fonts, you will see differences between the
platform specific and the Java version of AcrobatReader. The Java-version
does some ugly character spacing, embedded fonts are not displayed properly.
That's really not a *good* thing. And the fact
Müller, Markus wrote:
Nice idea, but the size of a TIFF is much greater than the PDF.
Not necessarily true, TIFF format has many compression schemas. Loot at
my TIFFRenderer demo[1] for example. But TIFF also requires browser
plugin so no advantage here.
[1]
Hi there,
we're just testing FOP to generate PDF on a host, then sending the PDF
document in a way we don't know yet to some clients. The clients should be
able to view (and perhaps to print) the document. Is this possible without
AcrobatReader? The AcroRead for Java is not really a good thing,
Hmm, what about converting the PDF to a TIFF (or similar) on the server
and sending that to the client? Can be accomplished with GhostScript,
for example.
On Fri, 15 Nov 2002 09:55:04 +0100 Müller, Markus wrote:
Hi there,
we're just testing FOP to generate PDF on a host, then sending the PDF
Markus Müller wrote:
we're just testing FOP to generate PDF on a host, then sending the PDF
document in a way we don't know yet to some clients. The clients should be
able to view (and perhaps to print) the document. Is this possible without
AcrobatReader? The AcroRead for Java is not really
