Re: help using fop-pdf-images plug-in in an embedded fop
Hi Dietrich, On Jun 6, 2012, at 9:51 AM, Dietrich Streifert wrote: > > Hi Alexios, > > Thank you for your reply! > > Do you remember a few keywords of the thread subject you mentioned? This > would be helpfull. The thread starts here: http://markmail.org/message/snngnv57v7vejyqu It focuses on font issues, it will not help making the plugin discoverable but in the 9 messages there was some general information that I found useful when generating big output PDF files. > > Some more informations where I try to integrate the fop-pdf-images plug-in: > > It is a XML-RPC-server which, among other functions (lucene index and search > etc.), does the transformation of an xml-fo file to pdf. > > In order to have all needed libraries (jars) within the resulting server > jar, the build.xml file unrars all needed jars (including fop, xmlgraphics, > batik, avalon,...) into a temporary directory and packs them afterwards into > a single jar. > > As some jars include additional files within the META-INF directory (eg. the > services directory), all those files get mixed up in the resulting META-INF > directory and are (potentially) overwritten by subsequent files with the > same name during the unrar process. > > As you said that simply adding the fop-pdf-images.jar to the classpath of > your JBoss application with the embedded fop worked, I now suspect that the > above build method (unraring all and pack again) breaks the plug-in > mechanism. > > To blame (or not?) the used software: it is the java ilServer from the ILIAS > e-Lerning platform (http://www.ilias.de). > > If anyone has a comment: you're very welcome! > > Regards > Dietrich > > > Hi Dietrich, > > The FOP pdf images plugin works well for me when using FOP as an embedded > library that runs inside an application server (JBoss). It only required to > put the fop-pdf-images.jar in the classpath, no code changes. With big > volumes (thousands of pages per output PDF), we have noticed that it takes > time to open in Adobe Reader and to rip it on production printing servers. > In the past few months, there was an interesting thread with technical > information related to why this is happening. If you don't have big volumes, > it is working really well. > > Alexios Giotis > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://old.nabble.com/help-using-fop-pdf-images-plug-in-in-an-embedded-fop-tp33964386p33968246.html > Sent from the FOP - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > > - > To unsubscribe, e-mail: fop-users-unsubscr...@xmlgraphics.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: fop-users-h...@xmlgraphics.apache.org > - To unsubscribe, e-mail: fop-users-unsubscr...@xmlgraphics.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: fop-users-h...@xmlgraphics.apache.org
Re: help using fop-pdf-images plug-in in an embedded fop
Hi Alexios, Thank you for your reply! Do you remember a few keywords of the thread subject you mentioned? This would be helpfull. Some more informations where I try to integrate the fop-pdf-images plug-in: It is a XML-RPC-server which, among other functions (lucene index and search etc.), does the transformation of an xml-fo file to pdf. In order to have all needed libraries (jars) within the resulting server jar, the build.xml file unrars all needed jars (including fop, xmlgraphics, batik, avalon,...) into a temporary directory and packs them afterwards into a single jar. As some jars include additional files within the META-INF directory (eg. the services directory), all those files get mixed up in the resulting META-INF directory and are (potentially) overwritten by subsequent files with the same name during the unrar process. As you said that simply adding the fop-pdf-images.jar to the classpath of your JBoss application with the embedded fop worked, I now suspect that the above build method (unraring all and pack again) breaks the plug-in mechanism. To blame (or not?) the used software: it is the java ilServer from the ILIAS e-Lerning platform (http://www.ilias.de). If anyone has a comment: you're very welcome! Regards Dietrich Hi Dietrich, The FOP pdf images plugin works well for me when using FOP as an embedded library that runs inside an application server (JBoss). It only required to put the fop-pdf-images.jar in the classpath, no code changes. With big volumes (thousands of pages per output PDF), we have noticed that it takes time to open in Adobe Reader and to rip it on production printing servers. In the past few months, there was an interesting thread with technical information related to why this is happening. If you don't have big volumes, it is working really well. Alexios Giotis -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/help-using-fop-pdf-images-plug-in-in-an-embedded-fop-tp33964386p33968246.html Sent from the FOP - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: fop-users-unsubscr...@xmlgraphics.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: fop-users-h...@xmlgraphics.apache.org
Re: help using fop-pdf-images plug-in in an embedded fop
Hi Dietrich, The FOP pdf images plugin works well for me when using FOP as an embedded library that runs inside an application server (JBoss). It only required to put the fop-pdf-images.jar in the classpath, no code changes. With big volumes (thousands of pages per output PDF), we have noticed that it takes time to open in Adobe Reader and to rip it on production printing servers. In the past few months, there was an interesting thread with technical information related to why this is happening. If you don't have big volumes, it is working really well. Alexios Giotis On Jun 5, 2012, at 5:23 PM, Dietrich Streifert wrote: > > Hello everybody! > > I'm currently trying to enhance an XML-RPC-java server with an embedded fop, > similar implemented like here: > > http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/xmlgraphics/fop/trunk/examples/embedding/java/embedding/ExampleFO2PDF.java?view=markup > > (Referenced from here: http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/1.0/embedding.html) > > I've tried adding fop-pdf-images-2.0.0.jar to the classpath of the > XML-RPC-java-server but this does not work. > > I suspect that the fop plugin auto discover mechanism using the files in > META-INF/services/org.apache.fop.render.ImageHandler only works if fop is > run via commandline (eg. FOP.main) but not if fop is embedded within another > process. > > Has anybody managed to get the fop-pdf-images plugin ( > http://www.jeremias-maerki.ch/download/fop/pdf-images/ ) working within an > embedded environment? > > Thank you for your help. > > Regards > Dietrich > > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://old.nabble.com/help-using-fop-pdf-images-plug-in-in-an-embedded-fop-tp33964386p33964386.html > Sent from the FOP - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > > - > To unsubscribe, e-mail: fop-users-unsubscr...@xmlgraphics.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: fop-users-h...@xmlgraphics.apache.org > - To unsubscribe, e-mail: fop-users-unsubscr...@xmlgraphics.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: fop-users-h...@xmlgraphics.apache.org
