Re: MIF backend and Images: a solution?

[Chris Maden <crism@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

[Karl Critz]
> 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.

The stylesheet designer *could* get the size information.  My custom
tagged-MIF-maker parses the EPS graphic for the BoundingBox, and sets
the size of the frame accordingly.

Obviously, this wouldn't work quite as well for binary graphic formats
(at least not from inside DSSSL).

-Chris
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