[fedora-java] Re: PDF generation problem solved for me

[Thomas Fitzsimmons]

On Thu, 2005-04-07 at 23:41 +0200, Ziga Mahkovec wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-04-07 at 16:27 -0400, Thomas Fitzsimmons wrote:
> > On Thu, 2005-04-07 at 15:49 -0400, David Malcolm wrote:
> > > Surely there must be a GPL-friendly PNG handler in Java somewhere?  How
> > > hard would it be to rewrite this part of FOP?  What's the status of
> > > getting a natively-compiled FOP into Fedora?
> > 
> > There's a gdk-pixbuf-based PNG decoder in libgcj's javax.imageio
> > implementation.  No encoder though.
> 
> How about the imageio stuff from the java-gui-branch[1]?  I've
> successfully rendered PNG images using the java-gui-20050128-branch, so
> this should be available in gcc4 as well.
> 

Oh damn, yes.  I forgot Graydon had added that.  I also see I didn't
answer the actual question: providing a natively-compiled FOP in Fedora
wouldn't be very hard at all.  What is the application you're trying to
get working?

Tom