MIF backend and Images: a solution?

[Karl Critz <kcritz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Now that JADE supports the MIF backend as part of the standard
distribution, I have been playing around with it and enjoying the ability
to produce frame-readable documents.

One of the known bugs in the backend (from mif.htm) is the fact
that it renders images in a 1x1 frame and overlaps them over
nearby paragraphs.  The authors claim in the documentation that
this is because they need to know the size of the image
in order to set the frame size and would rather not use
external software to get this information.

This makes sense, but wouldn't an acceptable workaround for
this shortcoming be to make the user responsible for providing
size information?  The GRAPHIC tag has width and depth attributes
which are used to show image size.  Would it be possible to have
the MIF backend simply honor these attributes if they are supplied?  I
would be willing to compute these numbers on my
own if it meant good-looking MIF output.

Anyone else have thoughts on this matter?

-karl


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