Thane Sinclaire wrote: > > I am testing the free version for my documentation use. I have installed > the plugins for different figure types, but I can only see gifs, pngs, > and jpegs. I can only produce output from pngs. Is it because I am using > the free version? >
--> I'm not sure what to answer. * Standard Edition will happily render all images on screen provided that you have properly installed the corresponding image toolkit plug-in. * You don't need any plug-in to render GIF, PNG, JPEG images on screen or to use these formats in the HTML, RTF, PDF, etc, generated using for example menu "DocBook|Convert Document". * Standard Edition has restrictions related to image formats when it comes to converting XML documents to other formats. See http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/stdedition.html --- Other important limitations of process commands in Standard Edition: * Image toolkit plug-ins cannot be used to convert on fly between different image formats. --- But once again, no problem with GIF, PNG, JPEG. * EPS and PDF graphics require a special kind of image toolkit plug-in, which, for now, cannot be installed automatically. Here's this image toolkit plug-in: --- <!-- ================================================================== Requires Ghostscript 8+ to be installed. Will not work properly with Ghostscript 7 which does not support the -dEPSCrop switch. If the gs (gswin32c.exe on Windows) program is not in your PATH, you'll need to slightly edit the shell child elements below. Tested on Windows using: * Ghostscript 8.14, an interpreter for the PostScript language and for PDF. See http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/. =================================================================== --> <imageToolkit name="Ghostscript"> <description>Converts EPS and PDF graphics to PNG. Important: requires Ghostscript 8+.</description> <converter> <input extensions="eps epsf ps pdf" magicStrings="%!PS %PDF"/> <output extensions="png"/> <shell command='gs -q -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=png16m -r96 -dTextAlphaBits=4 -dGraphicsAlphaBits=4 -dEPSCrop %A "-sOutputFile=%O" "%I"' platform="Unix"/> <shell command='gswin32c -q -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=png16m -r96 -dTextAlphaBits=4 -dGraphicsAlphaBits=4 -dEPSCrop %A "-sOutputFile=%O" "%I"' platform="Windows"/> </converter> </imageToolkit> --- More information here: http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/_distrib/doc/configure/imageToolkit.html The above image toolkit plug-in is part of the add-on called: "A sample customize.xxe". --> If your documentation conforms to the DITA DTD, then almost everything said in this email is *false*. Conversion of DITA documents to other formats is done using the DITA open toolkit 1.2.2 (http://dita-ot.sourceforge.net/), with the limitations of this toolkit. See http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/_distrib/doc/dita/index.html I mean, XMLmind's machinery is not used at all: (almost) no process commands, no image toolkit plug-ins, no XSL-FO processor plug-ins, etc.
