[fedora-java] batik [Fwd: Re: com.sun.image.*]

[Anthony Green]

On Wed, 2005-09-28 at 23:27 -0700, Brion Vibber wrote:
> Anthony Green wrote:
> > If anybody is interested in running batik on our free stack, here's some
> > info on what needs doing...
> 
> Has anybody been working on this? We'd be interested in using Batik to
> rasterize SVG content for Wikipedia, and as we have a bit of a free
> software fetish it would be nice to make sure it can run under GCJ.
> 
> (Currently we're using librsvg, which is not totally satisfactory as
> there are some things it doesn't render too well.)
> 
> If nobody's working on it, I might pick it up sometime in the next while
> depending on how hard it looks. :)

Brion - have you looked into this at all?

The Fedora docs people would like to use FOP to help convert DocBook XML
into various outputs using a fully free stack.  Unfortunately FOP
depends on Batik....

AG