RE: Some notes on FOP regarding fonts - Images

[Eric SCHAEFFER <ES...@Techmetrix.net>]

> -----Message d'origine-----
> De: Nacho [mailto:nacho@siapi.es]
> Date: mercredi 29 novembre 2000 12:56
> À: 'fop-dev@xml.apache.org'
> Objet: RE: Some notes on FOP regarding fonts
> 
> 
> Hola a Todos:
> 
> > 
> >   - IMHO it is a bad idea to use a Writer instead of an 
> > OutputStream. This
> >     disables a sane implementation of binary output to the PDF file.
> > 
> 
> Totally agreed , i've submitted a proposal on this some days 
> ago, and i
> want volunteer to work in complete de AWT svg render engine , this in
> addition to binary renderings it's definitely useful,
> 
> This afternoon, i'll post to the list a new version of the 
> awt package,
> with the AWTRenderer refactored in a base ImageRenderer and a
> AWTRenderer and a JimiRenderer that inherits from it, this 
> can be useful
> in a future JAIRenderer ( i dont know a word of JAI but it's only a
> question of reading :), and to isolate the binary render 
> engine from the
> particular medium used ( a Component , a File , a Socket Stream ),  
> 
> Comments, Please?
> 

What do you mean by "ImageRenderer", "JimiRenderer", and "JAIRenderer" ? If
I understand well, you want FOP to render SVG to binary output (in gif, png,
jpeg, etc) ? Don't you think the org.apache.fop.image package can be usefull
?

Eric.

> 
> Saludos ,
> Ignacio J. Ortega
> 


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