EchoSVG depends on Apache FOP which in recent versions depends on Batik

[carlosame]

The echosvg-rasterizer and related modules introduce a dependency on Apache FOP, which in recent versions depends on Batik. The original Batik code worked around the issue by including a 2.3-SNAPSHOT binary of FOP in the lib directory, but that's really ugly.

This issue tracks the removal of the rasterizer module and related files, as well as dropping the support for PDF images in the svgrasterizer app.

[ghost]

Another possibility would be to import the relevant FOP sources. They import the binaries, we import the sources :-)

For my particular case, FOP would not be needed, so hopefully there's a way to prevent including the dependency. When generating a PDF, my app invokes ConTeXt, which then handles conversion of SVG to METAPOST statements, which are then exported to PDF.

[carlosame]

This issue should now be solved, and I added the relevant text to MIGRATING_FROM_BATIK. In case that a bug related to PDF images remains around, a new issue should be opened.