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Including PDF graphics?
Hi,
It seems that FOP cannot include PDF graphics. To me this is a serious
shortcoming, as there does not appear to be a way to include existing
EPS or PDF graphics in a FOP-generated document, and show the result
in acroread.
What's the opinion out there? File an enhancement request?
Justus
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Re: Including PDF graphics?
Posted by Jeremias Maerki <de...@greenmail.ch>.
It isn't that simple, because we currently don't have any PDF parsing
code. Actually it isn't that difficult but someone has to do the coding
first.
On 08.12.2003 09:27:55 Justus H. Piater wrote:
> It seems to me that it should be fairly easy to include PDF graphics
> support in FOP, no?
Jeremias Maerki
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Re: Including PDF graphics?
Posted by "Justus H. Piater" <Ju...@ULg.ac.be>.
I'm not a PDF expert, but here's a paragraph from a man page:
epstopdf transforms the Encapsulated PostScript file epsfile so that it
is guaranteed to start at the 0,0 coordinate, and it sets a page size
exactly corresponding to the BoundingBox. This means that when
Ghostscript renders it, the result needs no cropping, and the PDF Medi-
aBox is correct. The result is piped to Ghostscript and a PDF version
written.
This is what I use with PDFLaTeX and PassiveTeX to put vector graphics
into PDF documents. Relying on EPS for graphics in PDF documents
sort-of defeats the point of PDF.
It seems to me that it should be fairly easy to include PDF graphics
support in FOP, no?
Justus
"J.Pietschmann" <j3...@yahoo.de> wrote on Fri, 05 Dec 2003 19:52:58
+0100:
> Justus H. Piater wrote:
>> It seems that FOP cannot include PDF graphics. To me this is a serious
>> shortcoming, as there does not appear to be a way to include existing
>> EPS or PDF graphics in a FOP-generated document, and show the result
>> in acroread.
>
> FOP can include EPS graphis, but Acrobat reader wont display them
> (that's mainly a restriction of AcrobatReader, not FOP, a PS printer
> will print them even from Acrobat Reader).
> What's a "PDF graphic"? A recursivly embedded PDF?
>
> J.Pietschmann
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Re: Including PDF graphics?
Posted by "J.Pietschmann" <j3...@yahoo.de>.
Justus H. Piater wrote:
> It seems that FOP cannot include PDF graphics. To me this is a serious
> shortcoming, as there does not appear to be a way to include existing
> EPS or PDF graphics in a FOP-generated document, and show the result
> in acroread.
FOP can include EPS graphis, but Acrobat reader wont display them
(that's mainly a restriction of AcrobatReader, not FOP, a PS printer
will print them even from Acrobat Reader).
What's a "PDF graphic"? A recursivly embedded PDF?
J.Pietschmann
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