Bug#327354: libbatik-java: Batik doesn't bring pdf-transcoder.jar but doesn't work either with fop.

[Michael Koch]

On Fri, Sep 09, 2005 at 03:17:30PM +0200, Wolfgang Baer wrote:
> Eric Lavarde wrote:
> > Package: libbatik-java
> > Version: 1.5.1-1
> > Severity: normal
> > 
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I'm trying to package the next version of FreeMind (0.8.0) for Debian,
> > which has a plugin to export SVG and PDF.
> > The SVG export works well with the batik package from Debian, but I need
> > to keep the pdf-transcoder.jar within my package, because fop doesn't
> > seem to be a proper replacement, even though pdf-transcoder.jar seems
> > to come from this project.
> 
> The pdf-transcoder.jar you will find in recent batik binary releases is
> _NOT_ from the fop (0.20.5) package, but a specific CVS snapshot of
> fop 1.0-dev done only to put it into the batik tarballs (with two
> additional classes from avalon project).
> 
> So basically batik will NOT work with the pdf-transcoder stuff inside
> the current fop package in debian.
> 
> This situation will only change once the fop / batik projects will
> merge to the xml graphics project upstream and really depend on each
> others stable versions.
> 
> We also cannot include the (right) pdf-transcoder jar into the batik
> packages as the batik src downloads do _NOT_ include the pdf-transcoder
> sources (just the precompiled jar).
> 
> See http://wiki.apache.org/xmlgraphics/XmlGraphicsCommonComponents
> for the problem and the upcomming solution.

Can we include its sources as patch so they get compiled together with batik?
Then its easy to remove this patch again when newer batik version dont need it anymore.

Just an idea, maybe no possible at all.


Regards,
Michael
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