November 23, 2005
23 November 2005 - Apache FOP 0.90 alpha-1 Now Available
The Apache FOP team is excited to announce the release of Apache FOP 0.90 alpha 1, the first preview release after over three years of redesign and after two and a half years without a new release.
Apache FOP is the Apache Software Foundation's XSL-FO implementation written in Java with support for several output formats like PDF, PostScript, Plain Text, RTF etc.
This new release brings you long-awaited features like keeps on all implemented FO elements, support for reference-orientation, better indent behaviour, various improvements on inline elements like baseline-shift and improved leaders and image handling, improved border painting etc. Please check out the compliance page to view the differences between 0.20.5 and 0.90 alpha 1:
http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/compliance.html
IMPORTANT!
This release is the first after a big redesign effort on the whole FOP codebase. This release is to be considered ALPHA quality and it is intended as a preview release encouraging people to take a look at the new version and to provide feedback to the developers. Please not only report to us problems you might experience but also tell us if it works for you. If you find out that this version works fine for you, you're welcome to use it but please test it thoroughly as we don't consider this release ready for every production environment. Please read the following page for more detailed information:
http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/0.90/upgrading.html
Download:
http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/xml/fop
Source and binary distributions are available. Two binary distributions exist, one for JDK 1.3.x and one for JDK 1.4 and later.
Release Notes:
http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/relnotes.html#FOP+0.90+alpha+1
Documentation:
http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/0.90/
Important information if you upgrade from version 0.20.5:
http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/0.90/upgrading.html
Compliance documentation which allows you to compare 0.20.5 and 0.90.x:
http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/compliance.html
General Information about Apache FOP:
http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/
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----Posted by Tetsuya Kitahata at November 23, 2005 01:00 AMProject Info -- Apache FOP
FOP (Formatting Objects Processor) is the world's first print formatter driven by XSL formatting objects (XSL-FO) and the world's first output independent formatter. It is a Java application that reads a formatting object (FO) tree and renders the resulting pages to a specified output. Output formats currently supported include PDF, PCL, PS, SVG, XML (area tree representation), Print, AWT, MIF and TXT. The primary output target is PDF.
Releases can be downloaded from http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/download.html
Project Website http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop Programming Languages Java Categories xml, graphics Mailing Lists http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/maillist.html Bug/Issue Tracker http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/buglist.cgi?product=Fop Project Management Committee Apache XML Graphics Access to the source code:
Browse http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/xmlgraphics/fop/trunk/ SVN Direct http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/xmlgraphics/fop/trunk/
http://www.apachenews.org/archives/000790.html
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