On Thu, 2006-09-14 at 19:21 +1000, Cameron McCormack wrote: > Hi people. Hi Cameron: I'm going to leave your reply intact below, just dropping a note that I sent a separate message to fedora-docs-list summarizing the thread so far and calling attention to what we can do to help. Of the tools-herders, some are busy with test3 packaging, but we certainly must have some people with documents they want to test (into PDFs). I'll keep both lists informed, for now. Thanks, Karsten > 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/GnuClasspathCompatibility > > 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 > -- Karsten Wade, RHCE, 108 Editor ^ Fedora Documentation Project Sr. Developer Relations Mgr. | fedoraproject.org/wiki/DocsProject quaid.108.redhat.com | gpg key: AD0E0C41 ////////////////////////////////// \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\
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