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Hi Darren,<br>
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I would look into imageMagick if I were you ... ghostscript does an excellent job as well, but the default configuration is "very" lossy and needs a lot of adjusting - my experience, YMMV.<br>
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Regards,<br>
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HP<br>
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<div style="direction: ltr;" id="divRpF41174"><font color="#000000" face="Tahoma" size="2"><b>From:</b> xep-support-bounces@renderx.com [xep-support-bounces@renderx.com] on behalf of Kevin Brown [kevin@renderx.com]<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, November 06, 2013 8:56 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> 'RenderX Community Support List'<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [xep-support] Re: Output to image<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Darren:</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">You are correct, the answer is no.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">RenderX is a composition engine, interested in fonts, kerning, line endings and laying out pages in a “page description language” (PDF, Postscript, AFP, PPML, …).
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">You are asking for a RIP … something that takes the composed information output from a product like RenderX and “RIPs” it to a bitmap.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Short answer … Use Ghostscript.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Output RenderX -> PDF or Postscript and the send PDF/PS to Ghostscript to get a bitmap.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Kevin Brown</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">RenderX</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> xep-support-bounces@renderx.com [mailto:xep-support-bounces@renderx.com]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Darren Munt<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, November 05, 2013 9:05 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> xep-support@renderx.com<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [xep-support] Output to image</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">I think the answer is no, but just in case I’ve missed it somewhere: Does XEP provide a method to produce output as an image, such as PNG?</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">So the process would be XSL:FO -> XEP -> PNG for example.</span></p>
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