first of all, thanks for your great image-export-plugin!
I'm just not able to de the .pdf-export (the one i need most ;))
I've downloaded the iText-jar, but i think I'll need to have an iText-Eclipse-Plugin? Where can I get that?
And do I need Xerces for pdf-export, too? (or just for svg?)
EPS and PNG is working fine, btw.
Thanks in advance for your help!
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Hi Martin, you're welcome, thanks for the compliments. It is exactly like you already said: for PDF you need the iText Eclipse plug-in. You can find it in Help > Software Updates > Find and Install..., Search for new features to install, check the Europa discovery site, Finish, then you'll find it in Enabling Features: Lowagie iText Feature. You also need GMF (Graphical Modeling Framework). You say EPS works fine so you already have GMF installed (it is needed for all of the "complex" formats, i.e. SVG, PDF, EPS). Let me know whether that does the job. Have you seen the INSTALL file in the Image Export feature? I guess not so I should make that information more visible. Would you be so kind and tell me what you tried to make it work? Where did you look for information? That might help me make the user experience a little smoother :). Thanks and good night, Thomas.
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Wow, fast response, thank you, it's working fine now - great :)
There is no search-function for the Europa Discovery Site (or other update-sites)...is it?
Yes, I had GMF already installed.
>> Let me know whether that does the job. Have you seen the INSTALL file in the Image Export feature?
I wanted to have a look at the INSTALL file in the Image Export feature, but i couldn't find any file called INSTALL (just "Credits" and "GPL") - did i look in the wrong location?
>> Would you be so kind and tell me what you tried to make it work? Where did you look for information?
First, I had a look at the instructions at http://www.papyrusuml.org/scripts/home/publigen/content/templates/show.asp?P=113&L=EN&ITEMID=32 - thats how I found your plugin. With that and the instructions on your website, i managed to get everything except the PDF (because of the missing iText-Plugin) working.
Then I searched your website again, tried to find some help using google (without success, just a tutorial to make myself a plugin out of the iText-jar...), I had a look at these forums and the bugtracker here. After, all in all, about an hour (and sf.net-login beeing disabled for some more hours), i wrote my message here...
Thanks, good night,
Martin
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> Hi Thomas,
>
> Wow, fast response, thank you, it's working fine now - great :)
> There is no search-function for the Europa Discovery Site (or other
> update-sites)...is it?
Guess who's grumpy each time that he has to use that fricken dialog... ;). Great to hear you're good now.
> > Let me know whether that does the job. Have you seen the INSTALL file in
> > the Image Export feature?
> I wanted to have a look at the INSTALL file in the Image Export feature, but
> i couldn't find any file called INSTALL (just "Credits" and "GPL") - did i look
> in the wrong location?
No, you did it right, stupid me got the build script wrong, I simply didn't include INSTALL in the release. Fixed in CVS.
> With that and the instructions
> on your website, i managed to get everything except the PDF (because of the
> missing iText-Plugin) working.
> Then I searched your website again, tried to find some help using google (without
> success, just a tutorial to make myself a plugin out of the iText-jar...), I
> had a look at these forums and the bugtracker here. After, all in all, about
> an hour (and sf.net-login beeing disabled for some more hours), i wrote my message
> here...
>
> Thanks, good night,
> Martin
Thanks for the information. I just checked and realized that the information on the web page is outdated, I really should include information from the INSTALL file there. Until the next release will be out, here's the current content of the INSTALL file:
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Basic Setup
-----------
When downloading the Image Export Plug In, you get a file called
de.unikassel.imageexport_x.y.z.zip
This archive contains an eclipse directory with the two subdirectories
plugins and features. Copy the contents of these two directories
into the plugins and features directories, respectively, in your
Eclipse installation directory.
Also copy the logging plug in to the plugins directory of your
Eclipse installation directory.
Now, the basic export formats (PNG, JPEG, BMP) should be available.
After restarting Eclipse, you should see the Image Export feature and
plug ins under Help > About Eclipse SDK > Feature Details / Plugin
Details.
Additional Formats
------------------
There are plug ins for other formats available as well. There are
plug ins for EPS, PDF and SVG, each depending on other plug ins that
you have to install, too.
EPS, PDF and SVG all depend on the GMF plug in (Graphical Modeling
Framework). You can install this by selecting "Help > Software
Updates > Find and Install...", and choose to install "new features"
from the "Europa Discovery Site". GMF has a lot of dependencies of
its own so "Select Required" often comes in handy.
The EPS plug in depends on Apache XML Graphics Commons. This is
included when you download de.unikassel.imageexport.eps_x.y.z.zip.
The PDF plug in depends on iText which you can install like GMF, have
a look at the section called "Enabling Features".
The SVG plug in depends on Batik which you can install like GMF, have
a look at the section called "Enabling Features".
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Sorry for the inconvenience and thanks for your feedback, Thomas.
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Hello,
first of all, thanks for your great image-export-plugin!
I'm just not able to de the .pdf-export (the one i need most ;))
I've downloaded the iText-jar, but i think I'll need to have an iText-Eclipse-Plugin? Where can I get that?
And do I need Xerces for pdf-export, too? (or just for svg?)
EPS and PNG is working fine, btw.
Thanks in advance for your help!
Hi Martin, you're welcome, thanks for the compliments. It is exactly like you already said: for PDF you need the iText Eclipse plug-in. You can find it in Help > Software Updates > Find and Install..., Search for new features to install, check the Europa discovery site, Finish, then you'll find it in Enabling Features: Lowagie iText Feature. You also need GMF (Graphical Modeling Framework). You say EPS works fine so you already have GMF installed (it is needed for all of the "complex" formats, i.e. SVG, PDF, EPS). Let me know whether that does the job. Have you seen the INSTALL file in the Image Export feature? I guess not so I should make that information more visible. Would you be so kind and tell me what you tried to make it work? Where did you look for information? That might help me make the user experience a little smoother :). Thanks and good night, Thomas.
Hi Thomas,
Wow, fast response, thank you, it's working fine now - great :)
There is no search-function for the Europa Discovery Site (or other update-sites)...is it?
Yes, I had GMF already installed.
>> Let me know whether that does the job. Have you seen the INSTALL file in the Image Export feature?
I wanted to have a look at the INSTALL file in the Image Export feature, but i couldn't find any file called INSTALL (just "Credits" and "GPL") - did i look in the wrong location?
>> Would you be so kind and tell me what you tried to make it work? Where did you look for information?
First, I had a look at the instructions at http://www.papyrusuml.org/scripts/home/publigen/content/templates/show.asp?P=113&L=EN&ITEMID=32 - thats how I found your plugin. With that and the instructions on your website, i managed to get everything except the PDF (because of the missing iText-Plugin) working.
Then I searched your website again, tried to find some help using google (without success, just a tutorial to make myself a plugin out of the iText-jar...), I had a look at these forums and the bugtracker here. After, all in all, about an hour (and sf.net-login beeing disabled for some more hours), i wrote my message here...
Thanks, good night,
Martin
Hi Martin, not quite as fast today but still :).
> Hi Thomas,
>
> Wow, fast response, thank you, it's working fine now - great :)
> There is no search-function for the Europa Discovery Site (or other
> update-sites)...is it?
Guess who's grumpy each time that he has to use that fricken dialog... ;). Great to hear you're good now.
> > Let me know whether that does the job. Have you seen the INSTALL file in
> > the Image Export feature?
> I wanted to have a look at the INSTALL file in the Image Export feature, but
> i couldn't find any file called INSTALL (just "Credits" and "GPL") - did i look
> in the wrong location?
No, you did it right, stupid me got the build script wrong, I simply didn't include INSTALL in the release. Fixed in CVS.
> > Would you be so kind and tell me what you tried to make it work? Where did
> > you look for information?
> First, I had a look at the instructions at
> http://www.papyrusuml.org/scripts/home/publigen/content/templates/show.asp?P=113
> &L=EN&ITEMID=32 - thats how I found your plugin.
Cool, we're linked! :D
> With that and the instructions
> on your website, i managed to get everything except the PDF (because of the
> missing iText-Plugin) working.
> Then I searched your website again, tried to find some help using google (without
> success, just a tutorial to make myself a plugin out of the iText-jar...), I
> had a look at these forums and the bugtracker here. After, all in all, about
> an hour (and sf.net-login beeing disabled for some more hours), i wrote my message
> here...
>
> Thanks, good night,
> Martin
Thanks for the information. I just checked and realized that the information on the web page is outdated, I really should include information from the INSTALL file there. Until the next release will be out, here's the current content of the INSTALL file:
----- 8< snip 8< -----
Basic Setup
-----------
When downloading the Image Export Plug In, you get a file called
de.unikassel.imageexport_x.y.z.zip
This archive contains an eclipse directory with the two subdirectories
plugins and features. Copy the contents of these two directories
into the plugins and features directories, respectively, in your
Eclipse installation directory.
Also copy the logging plug in to the plugins directory of your
Eclipse installation directory.
Now, the basic export formats (PNG, JPEG, BMP) should be available.
After restarting Eclipse, you should see the Image Export feature and
plug ins under Help > About Eclipse SDK > Feature Details / Plugin
Details.
Additional Formats
------------------
There are plug ins for other formats available as well. There are
plug ins for EPS, PDF and SVG, each depending on other plug ins that
you have to install, too.
EPS, PDF and SVG all depend on the GMF plug in (Graphical Modeling
Framework). You can install this by selecting "Help > Software
Updates > Find and Install...", and choose to install "new features"
from the "Europa Discovery Site". GMF has a lot of dependencies of
its own so "Select Required" often comes in handy.
The EPS plug in depends on Apache XML Graphics Commons. This is
included when you download de.unikassel.imageexport.eps_x.y.z.zip.
The PDF plug in depends on iText which you can install like GMF, have
a look at the section called "Enabling Features".
The SVG plug in depends on Batik which you can install like GMF, have
a look at the section called "Enabling Features".
----- 8< snip 8< -----
Sorry for the inconvenience and thanks for your feedback, Thomas.