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

Brion Vibber brion at pobox.com
Wed Oct 19 18:31:57 UTC 2005


Anthony Green wrote:
> 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?

I've looked a little bit at the files but haven't had a chance to try
actually working on it. If someone else is itching to work on it, PLEASE
feel free to start!

> 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....

-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
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