FOP is a print formatter driven by XSL formatting objects (XSL-FO).
It is a Java application that reads a formatting object (FO) tree
and renders it into a specified output.
Many output formats are supported, including PDF, PS, PCL, AFP, XML,
Print, AWT, Tiff, PNG, RTF, TXT. The primary output target is PDF.
patches to add it). Drop pax from the default USE_TOOLS list.
Make bsdtar the default for those places that wanted gtar to extract
long links etc, as bsdtar can be built of the tree.
This is _not_ the most recent version of fop, but it is the most recent
version of fop which works with cocoon. If people need the newest fop
version, drop me a line, and I will import it as fop-current.
There is currently an issue with SVG rendering, which will be addressed
this afternoon.
Changes since fop-0.13.0, the last pkgsrc version:
Done since 0.14 release
- added region-name support, refactoring of region, PageSequence,
PageMasterReference, flow/static [Kelly Campbell, Arved Sandstrom]
- added CommandLine/Driver -d option to output stack traces [Kelly Campbell, Arved Sandstrom]
- added: a new package for image support and analysis [Pankaj Narula]
- added better svg support (linear gradients, radial gradients, css style selectors,
css colour names, patterns, path curves (except arcs), text tspan and tref, text whitespace
handling, text outline and fill, switch, images (including external svg images)
references in external svg documents, svg elements (below top element), symbol element) [Keiron Liddle]
- added large test suite for svg [Keiron Liddle]
- added support for property textdecoration (only value 'underline') [Christian Geisert]
- added support for type 1 fonts [Jeremias Maerki,Alan Fagot]
- added support for compile target jdk 1.1 only [Art Welch]
- added support for partial borders in block, block-container,
table-row, table-column and table-cell [Corinna Hischke]
- redesign of properties handling, support for computed, compound and shorthand properties,
supporting docs [Karen Lease]
- redesign of font handling for AWTRenderer [Dorothea Wiarda]
- added: support for leader-alignment, leader-pattern-width, leader-pattern (dots,space) [Fotis Jannidis]
- fixed: unnecessary dependence on jdk 1.2 features [Christian Geisert]
- fixed: unicode problem in UserMessage [Ross Golder]
- fixed: broken buildFOTree [Marcus Holmberg]
- fixed: problems with borders and padding in tables [Corinna Hischke]
- fixed: XMLRenderer, unbalanced " in the produced output [Dorothea Wiarda]
- fixed: renamed: inline-sequence -> inline, simple-link -> basic-link,
white-space-treatment -> white-space-collapse [Fotis Jannidis]
- fixed: images were rendered only half size (Mikko Honkala)
- fixed: pdf file in XalanCommandFile explicitly closed [Dharamveer Salecha]
- fixed: lists containing list do not keep their indentation correctly
over a page boundary [Dorothea Wiarda]
Done since 0.13 release
- pagination updated to 03/27/2000 XSL WD [Arved Sandstrom]
- added support for fo page-number-citation [Mike Crowe, Jordan Naftolin]
- added support for 06/29/2000 SVG WD + W3C Java DOM bindings [Keiron Liddle]
- added image support using Jimi [Eric Schaeffer]
- added support for external and internal simple-links [Jordan Naftolin]
- added support for the fonts Symbol and ZapfDingbats [Fotis Jannidis]
- added a MessageHandler [Fotis Jannidis]
- fixed table overflow bug [Jordan Naftolin]
- finally fixed postscript printing of generated PDF [Domagoj Cosic]
- removed XTCommandLine from build.xml
- removed PDFOutputHandler from build.xml
- added XalanCommandLine [Fotis Jannidis]
- added: fo:instream-foreign-object [Keiron Liddle]
- added: goto button in AWT viewer [Stanislav Gorkhover]
- updated: AWT viewer now works again and supports - with some restrictions - the new SVG support [Stanislav Gorkhover]
fop -current, since it is not currently usable with cocoon.
Changes since fop-0.12.1:
- using Ant to build Fop instead of make [Giacomo Pati]
- borders, padding and absolute positioning [Jon Smirl]
FOP is the world's first print formatter driven by XSL formatting
objects. It is a Java 1.1 application that reads a formatting object
tree and then turns it into a PDF document. The formatting object
tree, can be in the form of an XML document (output by an XSLT engine
like XT or Xalan) or can be passed in memory as a DOM Document or (in
the case of XT) SAX events.
