Re: ANN: TIFFRenderer for FOP

Oleg,

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Andrew Watt

In a message dated 12/05/02 10:14:44 GMT Daylight Time, olegt@multiconn.com 
writes:


> Hello!
> 
> For the people interested in faxing using xsl-fo and FOP I'm happy to 
> announce
> TIFFRenderer for FOP. The homepage is at
> http://www.tkachenko.com/fop/tiffrenderer.html and here is some info:
> 
> 
> TIFFRenderer for FOP, version 0.9
> 
> TIFFRenderer is a small Java library extending Apache's FOP by providing
> possibility to output multi-page TIFF (Tagged Image File Format) images. 
> [TIFF
> is one of the most popular and flexible of the current public domain raster
> file formats, which was primarily designed for raster data interchange and 
> is
> standard format in faxing applications.] TIFFRenderer is not a real 
> renderer
> on its own, it just extends org.apache.fop.render.awt.AWTRenderer class and
> encodes generated by that renderer AWT images to TIFF format. To actual
> encoding TIFFRenderer uses slightly modified free of charge open source 
> TIFF
> codec [1] by Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Actually, a very similar TIFF codec is
> included in Batik distribution, but unfortunately it has very limited 
> support
> for TIFF compression methods). TIFFRenderer has no dependencies on JAI, 
> JIMI
> or other image processing libraries.
> 
> For demonstration of using TIFFRenderer in a web application see 
> TIFFRenderer
> Demo [2].
> 
> 
> Features
> 
> * Supported TIFF compression methods:
>          o Raw uncompressed data
>          o Byte-oriented run-length encoding "PackBits" compression
>          o Modified Huffman Compression (CCITT Group 3 1D facsimile 
> compression)
>          o CCITT T.4 bilevel compression (CCITT Group 3 2D facsimile 
> compression)
>          o CCITT T.6 bilevel compression (CCITT Group 4 facsimile 
> compression)
>          o JPEG-in-TIFF compression
>          o DEFLATE lossless compression (also known as "Zip-in-TIFF")
> * Ability to add extra images before/after those generated by FOP.
> 
> 
> Requirements
> 
> Not sure yet. Tested with FOP 0.20.3 under Sun JRE 1.3.1, 1.4. Definitely
> doesn't work under IBM JDK1.2.2 (WebShere 3.5) because of some bug in AWT
> implementation.
> 
> 
> Download and Installation
> 
> * Compiled version: tifferenderer-0.9.jar (140 Kb) [3].
> * Sources: tifferenderer-0.9-src.jar (180 Kb) [4].
> 
> Just put tiffrenderer-0.9.jar into the CLASSPATH.
> Testing: run TIFFRendererTest class with two arguments - xsl-fo file and 
> tiff
> file to be generated (having fop related jars and tiffrenderer-0.9.jar in 
> the
> CLASSPATH):
> 
> java com.multiconn.fop.TIFFRendererTest table.fo table.tif
>             
> 
> Documentation
> 
> See TIFFRenderer Javadoc [5].
> Main pattern of using TIFFRenderer is a very primitive one:
> 
> //Creates TIFFRenderer instance
> TIFFRenderer tiffRenderer = TIFFRendererFactory.newTIFFRenderer();
> //Creates render/encode params collection
> TIFFRendererParams params = new TIFFRendererParams();
> //Sets up params
> params.setCompression(TIFFRendererParams.COMPRESSION_GROUP3_1D);
> //Sets params to the renderer
> tiffRenderer.setRenderParams(params);
> //Sets renderer to the FOP driver
> driver.setRenderer(tiffRenderer);
> //Runs FOP
> driver.run();
>         
> See also TIFFRendererDemo servlet source [6] as example of using 
> TIFFRenderer
> in a servlet.
> 
> 
> Licence issues
> 
> TIFFRenderer is subject to the Mozilla Public License Version 1.0 and is
> distributed on an "AS IS" basis, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, either 
> express
> or implied. Original TIFF codec source code licence by Sun Microsystems, 
> Inc.:
> JAI_1.1.1_sample_io_sourcecodelic.10_23_01.txt [7].
> 
> 
> To be done
> 
> * Diminish library size by eliminating duplicate classes, which are
> already in Batik jar.
> 
> 
> Feedback
> 
> Any comments and suggestions would be greatly appreciated, feel free to
> contact me: <olegt@multiconn.com>.
> 
> Links:
> 
> [1] http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/sampsource/jai
> [2] http://www.tkachenko.com/fop/TIFFRendererDemo
> [3] http://www.tkachenko.com/fop/tiffrenderer-0.9.jar
> [4] http://www.tkachenko.com/fop/tiffrenderer-0.9-src.jar
> [5] http://www.tkachenko.com/fop/tiffrenderer-doc/index.html
> [6] 
> 
> 
> 
> http://www.tkachenko.com/fop/TIFFRendererDemo/src/TIFFRendererDemoServlet.java
> [7] 
> http://www.tkachenko.com/fop/JAI_1.1.1_sample_io_sourcecodelic.10_23_01.txt
> 
> -- 
> Oleg Tkachenko
> Multiconn International, Israel
>