At 2:02 PM -0700 4/16/08, Harry Goldschmitt wrote:
>I've been struggling for almost a week trying to create PDF output
>from fo files with PNG images in them. I know that fop 0.94 can
>handle certain PNGs, since some of my PNGs and the annotation PNGs
>work. Unfortunately, many of them don't. I've also tried fop
>0.95beta1, with similar results.
>
>The PNGs display fine in browsers, when I convert to html, and with
>the ImageMagick display command, XnView and Graphic Convertor on my
>Mac.
>
>The PNGs were generated by various authors, so I can't easily
>recreate them with another tool. I have been able to create my PDF
>by first converting the PNGs to PDFs using ImageMagick convert and
>then using RenderX's XEP to process the fo. Unfortunately, the free
>version of XEP stamps the bottom of each page. I've tried editing
>and saving with XnView.
>
>I've tried converting the PNGs to BMPs, JPGs, GIFs, TIFFs, EPSs and
>SVGs (inkscape).
>
>I'm also trying to use the xfc-42p1 fo2rtf command with similar
>results, except it can't handle PDF files.
>
>What I'd like, ideally, is a canned convert command to process the
>PNGs so they can be handled by both fop and fo2rtf.
>
>I've tried assorted convert commands like
>
>convert -flatten
>
>with no luck.
>
>I've also tried comparing PNGs fop is having problems with to those
>that it doesn't using identify and pngcheck. There are differences,
>but when I try to use convert to fix them it doesn't seem to help.
>
>Harry
Since I've had so many responses to this, I thought I'd add a tarball
with what I'm trying to do.
Harry
