Re: graphics, PNG files, JIMI and JAI

2003-05-11 Thread J.Pietschmann
Robert P. J. Day wrote: at this point, i'm thoroughly confused as to why neither JIMI nor JAI is successful at rendering a simple .png file. Did you get the binary distribution or did you build FOP from source? In case of the latter, Jimi/JAI must be present at build time, otherwise support files

graphics, PNG files, JIMI and JAI

2003-05-10 Thread Robert P. J. Day
in my simple docbook document, i've added a couple figures, one with a JPG file (renders nicely), one with a PNG file (does not render at all). both show up in the .fo file as a fo:external-graphic, so i know *that* part of it is correct. from what i read in the FOP FAQ, PNG support is

RE: graphics, PNG files, JIMI and JAI

2003-05-10 Thread Victor Mote
Robert P. J. Day wrote: in my simple docbook document, i've added a couple figures, one with a JPG file (renders nicely), one with a PNG file (does not render at all). both show up in the .fo file as a fo:external-graphic, so i know *that* part of it is correct. from what i read in the

RE: graphics, PNG files, JIMI and JAI

2003-05-10 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sat, 10 May 2003, Victor Mote wrote: Robert P. J. Day wrote: in my simple docbook document, i've added a couple figures, one with a JPG file (renders nicely), one with a PNG file (does not render at all). both show up in the .fo file as a fo:external-graphic, so i know *that*

RE: graphics, PNG files, JIMI and JAI

2003-05-10 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sat, 10 May 2003, Victor Mote wrote: Then, copy the file JimiProClasses.zip from the archive to {fop-install-dir}/lib/jimi-1.0.jar. Please note that FOP binary um ... i don't understand the idea of copying a .zip file to a new location, and renaming it to be a .jar file. is there something

RE: graphics, PNG files, JIMI and JAI

2003-05-10 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sat, 10 May 2003, Victor Mote wrote: If you are using a home-grown script that is fine. However, I suspect that you are actually using fop.bat or fop.sh at some point. If so, then a cursory examination of those scripts will show that FOP doesn't use your classpath at all, but builds its

RE: graphics, PNG files, JIMI and JAI

2003-05-10 Thread Victor Mote
Robert P. J. Day wrote: If you are using a home-grown script that is fine. However, I suspect that you are actually using fop.bat or fop.sh at some point. in fact, i'm using neither fop.sh nor fop.bat. given the number of java tools i'm using (xerces, xalan, saxon, etc.), i have a single

RE: graphics, PNG files, JIMI and JAI

2003-05-10 Thread Victor Mote
Robert P. J. Day wrote: Then, copy the file JimiProClasses.zip from the archive to {fop-install-dir}/lib/jimi-1.0.jar. Please note that FOP binary um ... i don't understand the idea of copying a .zip file to a new location, and renaming it to be a .jar file. cp tmp/xyz.zip

RE: graphics, PNG files, JIMI and JAI

2003-05-10 Thread Victor Mote
Robert P. J. Day wrote: i have, in fact, been testing this all morning. despite the fact that i don't see how invoking FOP through fop.sh can make any logistical difference, i did copy the jai_core.jar file under the {fop}/lib directory, i used fop.sh, i verified that all .jar files under

RE: graphics, PNG files, JIMI and JAI

2003-05-10 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sat, 10 May 2003, Victor Mote wrote: Robert P. J. Day wrote: If you are using a home-grown script that is fine. However, I suspect that you are actually using fop.bat or fop.sh at some point. If so, then a cursory examination of those scripts will show that FOP doesn't use your

RE: graphics, PNG files, JIMI and JAI

2003-05-10 Thread Victor Mote
Robert P. J. Day wrote: it would make no difference since, if you take a close look at the loop in fop.sh, the fop/lib jar files are being *prepended* anyway. the end result would be the same. You are right again. I'll get a cup of coffee before I try to help further :-) Sorry for the