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Subject: Re[2]: [docbook-apps] XEP and .PNG images created with Gnome's DIA


Hello Alan,

This PNG is broken so the bug is in DIA. Some graphic formats
supports internal information about image resolution and some does
not. PNG can have such information and, if present, this information
should be contained in pHYs chunk of the image data. DIA does writes
this data chunk into PNG, but fails to specify proper resolution for
an image (vertical resolution is set to 0). So the processing of such
image depends on the particular application fall-back strategy. Some
application may decide to treat such image as having no information
about the resolution at all, other will rise the error. I bet you are
using very old version of XEP (that followed first strategy), because
modern version of XEP will reject such image with appropriate error
message. 

Note that actual size of the image without intrinsic resolution will
be determined individually by each application depending on default
resolution it uses. XEP default is 120 DPI (you can read more about it
in the Section "5.1. Bitmap Graphics" of "XEP Reference").

Conclusion: fix DIA or use some tool to postprocess those PNGs (after
I've re-saved your 'account.png' using XnView it worked fine with
XEP). If you have image without intrinsic resolution - specify image
dimensions explicitly in your document.

Best regards,
Alexander Peshkov                             mailto:peshkov@renderx.com
RenderX

AE> I tried that, and then I had the problem where it was too small in the HTML 
AE> version but just right in the PDF version, or else it was too big in the PDF 
AE> and just right in the HTML version.

AE> There is definitely a bug in either XEP or DIA, or the combination of using 
AE> them together (because XEP has no problems with .png files created with 
AE> umbrello, and FOP has no problems with .png files created by dia).


AE> On 7/16/05, Jirka Kosek <jirka@kosek.cz> wrote:
>> 
>> Alan Ezust wrote:
>> 
>> > But one area where XEP does not work the same way as FOP is when 
>> including
>> > PNG images.
>> 
>> It is not working the same way, but correct way ;-)
>> 
>> > I have a bunch of .PNG images which were created with gnome dia, and 
>> they
>> > appear twice as big in XEP-generated PDFs as they do in the 
>> FOP-generated
>> > PDF (or on my screen). Do you have any idea why that might be?
>> 
>> You can either set correct dimensions (or resolution) inside your
>> graphics file using graphic editor like Gimp, or specify scaling using
>> scale attribute on imagedate element.
>> 
>> --
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