Bug#327354: libbatik-java: Batik doesn't bring pdf-transcoder.jar but doesn't work either with fop.

[Wolfgang Baer]

Eric Lavarde wrote:
> Package: libbatik-java
> Version: 1.5.1-1
> Severity: normal
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to package the next version of FreeMind (0.8.0) for Debian,
> which has a plugin to export SVG and PDF.
> The SVG export works well with the batik package from Debian, but I need
> to keep the pdf-transcoder.jar within my package, because fop doesn't
> seem to be a proper replacement, even though pdf-transcoder.jar seems
> to come from this project.

The pdf-transcoder.jar you will find in recent batik binary releases is
_NOT_ from the fop (0.20.5) package, but a specific CVS snapshot of
fop 1.0-dev done only to put it into the batik tarballs (with two
additional classes from avalon project).

So basically batik will NOT work with the pdf-transcoder stuff inside
the current fop package in debian.

This situation will only change once the fop / batik projects will
merge to the xml graphics project upstream and really depend on each
others stable versions.

We also cannot include the (right) pdf-transcoder jar into the batik
packages as the batik src downloads do _NOT_ include the pdf-transcoder
sources (just the precompiled jar).

See http://wiki.apache.org/xmlgraphics/XmlGraphicsCommonComponents
for the problem and the upcomming solution.

Regards,
Wolfgang