David Mundie wrote: > I am working on a Docbook report with 11 TIFF graphics in it. Everything > was fine until last Wednesday, when two of the graphics stopped > displaying at all, and four of them started displaying with distorted > colors; for example, > > > > instead of > > > > The problem persists even when all scale, width, etc. attributes have > been removed.
This problem is not related to imagedata attributes. > This only happens on one of the four machines I'm using. It's the only > machine that doesn't have OS X Tiger on it, but I don't > think that's relevant because this used to work before Tiger. I have > compared the checksums of all the files in both the > /Applications/XMLEditor.app/ subtree and my ~/.xxe2/ subtree, and saw no > differences that looked even remotely suspicious. The problem is simple to understand (and very easy to reproduce): * XXE does not handle images itself. It uses an image toolkit for that, based on a *third party* image library. (This to explain that we, XMLmind, cannot do much for you.) * On the Mac, whatever is your configuration, the image toolkit which is used to render TIFF images is the built-in Java image toolkit. * This image toolkit may have problems with some TIFF images and no problem at all with other TIFF images. * On MacOSX 10.3 (Panther), the built-in Java image toolkit has problems with *some* of your TIFF images. * On MacOSX 10.4 (Tiger), the built-in Java image toolkit has no problems with the same TIFF images. Why? Because it seems that Apple engineers have fixed some bugs in Tiger's Java. --> What to do? * Upgrade to Tiger. * OR use another software to create your TIFFs (one that creates really simple TIFFs -- TIFF = the ``DocBook of image formats''). * OR use one of the following image formats: JPEG, PNG, GIF. XXE V2.10 will give you the possibility to use the Jimi image toolkit to handle TIFF images instead of the built-in Java image toolkit. This workaround is currently not possible with XXE V2.9p1. > This *may* have happened at the point I installed XEP, but the problem > is not in the FO/PDF conversion, since even in XXE they display > incorrectly. (I have since uninstalled XEP to the best of my ability.) XEP has nothing to do with this.
