Re: Quick survey: upcoming release of FOP 0.94

[Roland Neilands <rn...@pulsemining.com.au>]

To redevelop something that worked before to look exactly the same 
because HP dropped their own format? No, no budget yet & no sense of 
futility either. :)

I've set this to do the font bitmapping, not sure that it's working as 
the font sizes aren't right, but they don't overlap so much:
conf/fop.xconf:
...
    <renderer mime="application/vnd.hp-PCL">
      <!-- render all text as bitmaps using Java 2D -->
      <text-rendering>bitmap</text-rendering>
    </renderer>

It looks the same as the PDF version on other printers though, so I 
can't reproduce it personally ...
I'll try to get an example.

Regards,
Roland 

Jeremias Maerki wrote:
> Quite a bit of work, what you suggest here. PCL 6 (aka PCL XL) is
> a completely different printer language compared to PCL 5. We'd have to
> develop a completely new renderer. Do you have a budget for this? ;-)
>
> What does that mean: "better, but still not adequate"? Does it print
> correctly on those printers or not? What's the problem?
>
> On 31.07.2007 08:48:08 Roland Neilands wrote:
>   
>> I suggest PCL6 support.
>>
>> A late response I know, but this just came up recently & I can't work 
>> around it.
>> PCL 5 support is being dropped from some new printers it seems:
>> http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c00878487/c00878487.pdf
>>
>> This has happened a couple of times recently, & the printers don't have 
>> usable postscript support, and bitmapping the fonts in 0.93 sadly didn't 
>> resolve the issue (better, but still not adequate).
>> It remains for me to say "buy another printer". I wonder how long that 
>> answer will fly?
>>
>> Regards,
>> Roland 
>>
>>
>> Andreas L Delmelle wrote:
>>     
>>> Hi all
>>>
>>>
>>> As some of you may already know, the fop-dev team is currently in the 
>>> process of preparing a new release. With this post, we would like to 
>>> gather some ideas on what the user community would like to see 
>>> incorporated in FOP 0.94.
>>>
>>> Note that the release will already contain some cool new features 
>>> compared to 0.93, like support for border-collapse="collapse", 
>>> auto-detection and -registration of available custom fonts and 
>>> improvements in handling internal destinations...
>>>
>>> What we are currently looking for are not large improvements (like 
>>> table-layout="auto", which we are well aware is still missing), but 
>>> more the elimination of small annoyances, little things that could 
>>> mean a great deal to you.
>>>
>>> So, shoot away, and we'll see what we can do. No suggestion will be 
>>> dismissed without consideration. Even if we do not implement the 
>>> suggestion immediately, if it's interesting enough, we will definitely 
>>> keep it in mind as a possible priority for the next release.
>>>
>>> We would also like this to be an opportunity for users who are in a 
>>> position where they are able to check out and build the 0.94 release 
>>> branch that has been created (*), to see if we have overlooked 
>>> anything in our testsuites. If any bugs or unexpected results turn up 
>>> in your real-time scenarios, we would of course appreciate it very 
>>> much if these are uncovered before the actual release.
>>>
>>>
>>> As always, we value your input and feedback.
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>> Andreas
>>>
>>> (*) http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/xmlgraphics/fop/branches/fop-0_94/
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