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

[Brion Vibber]

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 vibber (brion @ pobox.com / brion @ wikimedia.org)

> --- Begin Message ---
> From: Thomas DeWeese <Thomas DeWeese Kodak com>
> To: batik-dev xmlgraphics apache org
> Subject: Re: com.sun.image.*
> Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2005 20:05:34 -0400
> Hi Anthony,
>
> Anthony Green wrote:
>
> >         batik 1.6 (as packaged by jpackage.org) builds nicely on the Fedora
> > Core 4 Linux distribution with a fully Free and Open Source java stack
> > (gcj, the Eclipse compiler, etc), with the exception of a few classes
> > using com.sun.image.codec.jpeg.*.
> >
> > The com.sun.image.code.jpeg.* classes aren't part of the standard java
> > platform, and there are no Free or Open Source implementations of the
> > classes available for us to use. Can similar functionality be achieved
> > through the use of core classes, like ImageIO?
>
>    I would imagine so.  There are some potential issues with the
> handling of colorspaces but my understanding is that imageio
> tends to be more complete in general.
>
> > If so, are there any plans for such a migration?
>
>    The basic problem is that javax.imageio is only available in
> JDK 1.4 and higher.  Currently Batik target's 1.3 and higher.
> However we recently created a source tree for JDK 1.4 specific
> classes (only compiled for JDK 1.4 of course).  So it might be
> possible to add to the current support with this.
>
> > Getting batik to build with free software solutions opens the door to
> > including it, and applications that depend on it, in fully free Linux
> > distributions, like Fedora and Debian.
>
>    Any help from the these communities would be very welcome!

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