DOCBOOK-APPS: FOP images formats

["O'Donnell, Vincent" <vodonnell@accentopto.com>]

I used xalan, FOP (both from apache) and the docbook stylesheet to turn my
docbook XML into pdf.

This seemed to work fine.

I really want to have images in my final pdf which are composed of a photo
with text callouts. If possible I would like the callouts and text to be
scalable objects rather than bitmappy.

In the past I have imported photos into Ms Word docs, used Word to put
labels on them and then used Acrobat to make the pdfs. The resulting images
are nice and clear and the labels scale up nicely when magnified. I can
search on the text of the callouts etc.

I notice that docbook supports wmf format for imagedata, which i think would
do the trick. However, I wonder, is it possible for FOP to render these kind
of images into the final pdf? When I try it, the images don't appear. I
think maybe FOP can only do bitmap style images (like jpeg and gif).

Has anyone else tried to do what I am trying to do? Any result?

ta

V