[jira] Created: (MPPDF-52) Better handling of figures

["Arnaud Bailly (JIRA)" <ji...@codehaus.org>]

Better handling of figures
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         Key: MPPDF-52
         URL: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MPPDF-52
     Project: maven-pdf-plugin
        Type: Improvement
    Versions: 2.4    
 Environment: linux, maven 1.0.2, jdk1.4.2
 Reporter: Arnaud Bailly
    Priority: Minor


When an image is included in the document whose height is greater than the page size, FOP crashes with the cryptic message :

    [java] [INFO] [61]
    [java] [INFO] [62]
    [java] [ERROR] file:/home/nono/project/workspace/abailly/target/pdf/project.fo:269:141 No meaningful layout in block after many attempts.  Infinite loop is assumed.  Processing halted.

A simple fix is to set the height or content-height attribute in fo to a meaningful. 
This issue comes from the fact that fop uses a default graphics resolution of 72dpi which is not meaningful for printing devices (it is the standard resolution of screen devices). The resolution should be 300 or 600 dpi.

A more involved fix would be to allows definition of substitution properties in the plugin, something like:

maven.pdf.substitute.from=(.*).png
maven.pdf.substitute.to=(.*).pdf

This properties, if defined are then used by the XSLT transformer to replace low-res graphics with hi-res ones. This leaves to the user the responsibility of providing both images


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