>JPEG2000 certainly has its fans, but I'm not one of them. Our experience has >been that we have not found a fully working open-source JPEG2000 decoder. It >>remains an open issue for PDFBox. Couple that with the difficulty of encoding >the format means there's a non-zero chance that you're creating bad archive >>files, and combine it with the fact that the reference implementation itself >is broken, the spec is nearly impossible to understand, and the patent >situation is >unclear and you're looking at a pretty risky file format unless >you're prepared to pay for propitiatory encoders/decoders.
This is true. I have to add that the jai encoder (jj2000) is also broken in encoding RGB images (need to be converted to BGR images), an easy task yet a broken implementation it is. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
