Images not scaling in PDF output

[Carole Girard]

Hello,

we are moving from Dita-OT 1.8 to Dita-OT 3.2.

We have rebuilt our plugin from scratch to customise the layout of our PDFs.  When came up with a problem that I can't figure out.

The images are not rendered in the PDF with the width specified in the xml.

for example: <image href="../_Image/Workflow.png" width="370"
        id="image_y2h_y11_4y" placement="inline"/>

I think we need instructions in the commons.xsl file, but our previous code does not work.

Anyone has an idea of what is missing?

[Ron Wheeler]

 <image placement="inline" align="right" width="208px" height="320px"
  href="../images/darwin_library_of_congress.jpg">

Taken from a discussion on images from the web.

Have you tried adding px to the width specification -width="370px".

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[Radu Coravu]

Hi Carole,

Maybe you can search in the "org.dita.pdf2" plugin XSLT stylesheet for the XSLT template where the "topic/image" DITA element is processed.

Then search also in your XSLT customizations to see if you are overwriting the same template.

Then compare the two versions.

Regards,

Radu

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[AJ Côté]

Hello Carole,

Did you have a different DPI resolution for the image? If you also have this problem with the pdf2 output, I guess the DPI resolution was different in your old DITA-OT 1.8.

In DITA-OT 3.X, the path is: org.dita.pdf2.fop\cfg\fop.xconf

and there is two elements: source-resolution and target-resolution. By default, in vanilla DITA-OT 3.X, it is set to 72dpi.

In my old DITA-OT, bundled in Oxygen 17, it was there: org.dita.pdf2\fop\conf\fop.xconf, and both elements were set to 120.

Also, in Oxygen 21 (bundled with DITA-OT 3.X), the source is set to 120 and the target to 600.

I guess the best way is to avoid the pixel dimension and use a "physical" length (inch, mm). That way, the DPI resolution won't bother anymore.