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Posted to fop-dev@xmlgraphics.apache.org by "Townsend, Pete" <pe...@landg.com> on 2007/03/12 17:14:12 UTC
AFP Renderer Barcode Support
Dear fop-dev,
I'm the author of the AFPRenderer at http://afp-renderer.sourceforge.net/
which was ported across to fop-0.93 by Manuel Mall. It's great to see if
emerge in the 0.93 release thanks for everyone's effort in getting this out
and for including the AFP renderer.
I have been working on an enhancement to support the AFP BCOCA
(BarCodeObjectContentArchitecture) and wanted to gauge your opinion on
whether I can get this patch applied to the development, it's a few weeks
off completion at the moment. I'm aware that Barcode4J provide very good
barcode support, however the project I'm working on involves very high
volume outsourced printing and hence even the overhead of a 6kb image means
that this would not be feasible. For background, AFP is a very efficient
print stream format. Static resources (fonts, overlays, etc.) are only
transmitted once, with the result that a full page of text can be typically
about 1-2K kb. The advantage of using BCOCA is that the barcode is
transmitted as very small dataset.
Many thanks, Pete Townsend
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Re: AFP Renderer Barcode Support
Posted by Andreas L Delmelle <a_...@pandora.be>.
On Mar 12, 2007, at 17:14, Townsend, Pete wrote:
Hi,
> I'm the author of the AFPRenderer at http://afp-
> renderer.sourceforge.net/
> which was ported across to fop-0.93 by Manuel Mall. It's great to
> see if
> emerge in the 0.93 release thanks for everyone's effort in getting
> this out
> and for including the AFP renderer.
Well, a Big Thanks to /you/ for allowing FOP to incorporate it in the
first place! :)
> I have been working on an enhancement to support the AFP BCOCA
> (BarCodeObjectContentArchitecture) and wanted to gauge your opinion on
> whether I can get this patch applied to the development, it's a few
> weeks
> off completion at the moment. I'm aware that Barcode4J provide very
> good
> barcode support, however the project I'm working on involves very high
> volume outsourced printing and hence even the overhead of a 6kb
> image means
> that this would not be feasible. For background, AFP is a very
> efficient
> print stream format. Static resources (fonts, overlays, etc.) are
> only
> transmitted once, with the result that a full page of text can be
> typically
> about 1-2K kb. The advantage of using BCOCA is that the barcode is
> transmitted as very small dataset.
This definitely seems like a worthwhile addition to me. I don't see
how we could refuse the offer, even with Jeremias being the author of
Barcode4J... It does not seem like a collision of interests.
I have only one question (just out of curiosity):
Are you also implementing a FOP extension element (especially for use
with the AFPRenderer), or on what basis are your barcodes rendered?
Cheers,
Andreas
Re: Is that correct jar in SVN: xmlgraphics-commons-1.2svn.jar?
Posted by Andreas L Delmelle <a_...@pandora.be>.
On Mar 13, 2007, at 12:12, Andrejus Chaliapinas wrote:
Hi Andrejus,
> Just wonder if that "svn" suffix in jar name for
> xmlgraphics-commons-1.2svn.jar is correct. I could see it under
> trunk lib
> directory.
>
> I think that previously we had just xmlgraphics-commons-1.1.jar
That's indeed the correct JAR, which was replaced in the repository
by Jeremias, after he added new functionality to XML Graphics Commons
and Gump started complaining.
Commons 1.2 is not yet released by itself, hence the suffix 'svn'.
Cheers,
Andreas
Re: Is that correct jar in SVN: xmlgraphics-commons-1.2svn.jar?
Posted by Adrian Cumiskey <ad...@gmail.com>.
I believe this might probably be an Apache naming convention... but it
may not be such a grand reason... :-)
Andrejus Chaliapinas wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Just wonder if that "svn" suffix in jar name for
> xmlgraphics-commons-1.2svn.jar is correct. I could see it under trunk lib
> directory.
>
> I think that previously we had just xmlgraphics-commons-1.1.jar
>
> Andrejus
>
>
Is that correct jar in SVN: xmlgraphics-commons-1.2svn.jar?
Posted by Andrejus Chaliapinas <a....@infosana.com>.
Hi,
Just wonder if that "svn" suffix in jar name for
xmlgraphics-commons-1.2svn.jar is correct. I could see it under trunk lib
directory.
I think that previously we had just xmlgraphics-commons-1.1.jar
Andrejus
Re: AFP Renderer Barcode Support
Posted by Jeremias Maerki <de...@jeremias-maerki.ch>.
Hi Pete
Good to see you back here again. I wondered about the AFP Barcode stuff
myself. It makes perfect sense to make use of BCOCA. I'm aware of its
presence but haven't looked into the details. If a plugin for Barcode4J
could be created that automatically generates the optimal representation,
I don't know but it would obviously be optimal. But I don't think it
would be bad if you did it in a proprietary way (as an AFP extension
element) for the AFP renderer.
Looking forward to seeing a patch!
On 12.03.2007 17:14:12 Townsend, Pete wrote:
> Dear fop-dev,
>
> I'm the author of the AFPRenderer at http://afp-renderer.sourceforge.net/
> which was ported across to fop-0.93 by Manuel Mall. It's great to see if
> emerge in the 0.93 release thanks for everyone's effort in getting this out
> and for including the AFP renderer.
>
> I have been working on an enhancement to support the AFP BCOCA
> (BarCodeObjectContentArchitecture) and wanted to gauge your opinion on
> whether I can get this patch applied to the development, it's a few weeks
> off completion at the moment. I'm aware that Barcode4J provide very good
> barcode support, however the project I'm working on involves very high
> volume outsourced printing and hence even the overhead of a 6kb image means
> that this would not be feasible. For background, AFP is a very efficient
> print stream format. Static resources (fonts, overlays, etc.) are only
> transmitted once, with the result that a full page of text can be typically
> about 1-2K kb. The advantage of using BCOCA is that the barcode is
> transmitted as very small dataset.
>
> Many thanks, Pete Townsend
>
>
<snip/>
Jeremias Maerki