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20 April 2006 - Apache FOP 0.92 beta Now Available

The Apache FOP development team is very proud to present the third release off the trunk: Apache FOP 0.92beta.

It can be downloaded at: http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/download.html

Apache FOP 0.92 contains a considerable amount of improvements, bugfixes and new features in comparison with last December's 0.91 release, so you're all probably wondering: Why *still* consider it a beta release?

The main reason for this is a fundamental modification in the API, which was motivated by the fact that a lot of resources could be reused for multiple rendering runs. It has, of course, all been rigorously tested, but still we'd very much appreciate any feedback, especially if one of you feels there is room for improvement, be it in the area of performance or user-friendliness. Every one of your comments will be carefully weighed and taken into consideration.

Due to this change, we urge you to check out the following page before starting to work with the new release: http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/0.92/embedding.html

If all proceeds as planned, the next release will --finally, after some 3 years-- lose the beta-tag, since a lot of feedback and our own experiences now tell us this piece of software is ready for production environments.

On The Other Hand, if you take a look at the release notes at http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/relnotes.html, you will still see a lot of open/known issues, so...

As always, code-heads are encouraged to download the sources, and start tinkering with it. Your ideas, good or bad, will be very very welcome. If you have a lot of free time and feel like joining us, all the better.

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-- Apache FOP development team

Project 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/