Hi Everybody, I have been building a style sheet to generate PDFs and am having trouble with image quality in the pdf output. Here's the background:
We have gifs of a given size, say 350mm(w) x 200mm(h) . When the XML is generated, we divide the original dimensions of the gif by 4, so we get 87.5mm(w) x 50mm(h), because we want it to fit in the page... We create the FO and put the image in as an <svg:image xlink:href="fileName.gif" width="87.5mm" height="50mm"/> element. [We want it as svg because we draw svg lines, etc on top of it.] We run it through FOP and get the image sized at 87.5 x 50, but the image looks terrible. It appears that in rendering the image at a reduced size, FOP resamples the original and discards the original graphic info, which is actually needed to make the image display well when enlarged. Is there a way to tell FOP to display an image at a given size but NOT resample the original? Any help or ideas would be appreciated. Fred Evers