Hussein Shafie wrote: > 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. > > > > Thanks Hussein,
The answer is probably that I have been trying to use XXE with DITA. That may be the problem with viewing the figures and output to HTML and PDF. I will try to use the same information formatted with Docbook and see what results I get. And I will do it on my Linux box at home and not piddle with trying to set up ghost view etc. on windows. I may eventually, if we invest in XXE for the 5 of us, but for now the easiest route will be for me to do it in Linux, which is what I personally prefer anyway. I guess, if you don't mind me asking, can I set up files broken into sections, and then easily import them in by reference into a book like I could with DITA files and maps??? We have a lot of reuse and shared information that I would like to link into different manuals like one does with DITA. Thank you for your help! /Thane Sinclaire :-) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.xmlmind.com/pipermail/xmleditor-support/attachments/20061110/5785ebde/attachment.htm
