Hi people.
Karsten Wade:
> > > Can someone give fedora-docs-list an update
about our ability to put out
> > > a 100% free, gcj-compiled DocBook toolchain?
Thomas Fitzsimmons:
> > I've been meaning to test this against Rawhide
but haven't got to it yet. When
> > I do, I'll report the status here. (I have a
feeling there will have been
> > improvements because of the Java2D work in GNU
Classpath).
Mark Wielaard:
> Yes, I have CCed Cameron and Francis who might have the
most up to date
> status on all this. If we have a good description of
what really must
> work then we can concentrate on those parts of gcj,
classpath, batik and
> fop that are essential to the documentation team.
>
> I installed FC6test3, but cannot find the fop package
that Tom created
> (or did I only dream that he did? maybe it was never
submitted?). We
> might need to import/backport some recent classpath CVS
fixes into the
> FC6 libgcj to make it all work since I know just days
ago some new
> support for batik went into GNU Classpath (hi Francis,
hi Cameron).
Yes, I’ve just last week started to try to identify what
Classpath
problems are preventing Batik from working. Since the
Fedora people will
(presumably) only be interested in rasterising static SVG
documents,
this should avoid having to deal with any Swing issues just
yet.
We are collecting the issues regarding FOP and Batik here:
http://wiki.apache.org/xmlgraphics/GnuClasspathCompa
tibility
One thing I have noticed during my limited testing so far is
that the
rasteriser (and the SVG browser, too) is running pretty
slowly compared
to on Sun’s JVM. My first guess would be a mismatch of
ColorModels
between what Batik is providing and what the Cairo layer
underneath is
exepcting (which was a problem for Batik running under
Sun’s OSX JVM a
while ago), but I haven’t checked into this yet.
Some simple files work, others don’t. I really have to do
some more
testing before knowing which areas need to be looked at. I
will report
back (and update the wiki page above) when I have found out
more.
If the Fedora documentation people want to provide examples
of the kinds
of things they will be processing, that would help to
prioritise the
work.
I am not sure about the state of FOP running with Classpath.
Jeremias
Märki (CC’d) should know more.
Thanks,
Cameron
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