Hi Sven, Thank you for the update on the status quo of both Java2D and ImageIO. And great to hear that work is currently done for this. I wonder about ImageIO through ImageMagick though. Are you sure that there is no code for this so far? I saw it mentioned here, and from what I read it sounds like it's already working: http://developer.classpath.org/doc/javax/imageio/package-summary.html And how much more time do you think will be needed for the Java2D stuff to work completely headless? Is there anything I could help with? J?rg Am 07.06.2006 um 14:20 schrieb Sven de Marothy: > Hello Juerg, > >> I wonder: Does Java2D and ImageIO work on Unix without an X Server >> installed, e.g. in a server environment or on OS X? If so: How do I >> need to compile? > > Roman has been doing some work on this, however it's not ready for > production use yet, AFAIK. The existing Java2D on Cairo peers will > probably be able to work headless. They don't at this very moment > though. The main remaining dependency on GTK for headless is for > fonts, > but I'm actually working on removing that right now. > >> And what is the situation on Windows? > > Same as above. (The Cairo libs used for offscreen drawing are portable > and shouldn't have any problems under Windows.) > >> I read somewhere that ImageIO by default is based on ImageMagick. Is >> this mature, does it work well? > > This is planned, but hasn't been implmented yet. At the moment there's > an ImageIO plugin based on GdkPixbuf and a pure-java BMP plugin, and a > JPEG one in the works. > > So, we're not quite there yet. But since you've shown interest, I'll > keep it in mind and see what I can do once we're finished with this > overhaul. Most of the code is there, it's mostly just the font stuff > and then cleaning up the dependencies to allow for headless. > > /Sven >
