Re: [docbook-apps] Images in PDF appear too large

["Chris Chiasson" <chris@chiasson.name>]

Hrm, maybe I was thinking of fop 0.2x

I did (re)find more info on DocBook's scaling attributes:
http://www.docbook.org/tdg5/en/html/imagedata.html

On 4/26/07, Colin Shapiro <cmshapiro@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm currently working with a custom stylesheet I wrote from scratch (not
> DocBook) to generate FO from an XML document, and I'm using FOP v0.93.  I've
> found that the image scaling does work.  If I use the following FO:
>
> <fo:external-graphic src="image.jpg" width="100px"
> content-width="scale-to-fit"/>
>
> then the image is scaled properly to the given width, and the proportions
> remain intact.
>
> I haven't looked at the FO produced by the DocBook stylesheets, so this
> doesn't necessarily answer the original poster's question, but FOP can do
> image scaling in this manner.
>
> Colin
>
>
>  On 4/26/07, Chris Chiasson <chris@chiasson.name> wrote:
> >
> > I have heard that fop is not so good at obeying the scaling commands.
> > I can't remember where, though.
> >
> > On 4/26/07, T.G. Mutato <throw6617@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > I've been trying to get inline images in a PDF file to appear
> > > correctly but they always seem to big. I've been following the advice
> > > in Bob's excellent book (also available at
> > > http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/ImageSizing.html )
> and using
> > >
> > > <inlinemediaobject>
> > >   <imageobject>
> > >     <imagedata fileref="images/image.png" format="PNG" scalefit="1"
> > > width="100%" contentdepth="100%"/>
> > >   </imageobject>
> > > </inlinemediaobject>
> > >
> > > So far, no luck; they appear to be scaled bigger than they actually
> > > are (the actual image is 36 pixels wide by 14 pixels high and has a
> > > resolution of 72 dpi -- the image appears roughly  1.5 times larger
> > > than actual when looking at the document on screen or printed out).
> > > I'm using the XSL 1.72.0 stylesheets and FOP 0.93 on Windows.
> > >
> > > Any other ideas on configuration? Maybe I need to include something
> > > about resolution in the FOP configuration file?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > tgm
> > >
> > >
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