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24 August 2007 - Apache FOP 0.94 Released

The Apache XML Graphics team is pleased to announce the release of Apache FOP version 0.94.

FOP (Formatting Objects Processor) is a print formatter driven by XSL Formatting Objects [1] and an output independent formatter. It is a Java application that reads a formatting object tree and renders the resulting pages to a specified output. Output formats currently supported include PDF, PS, PCL, AFP, Print and PNG.

http://www.w3.org/TR/xsl11/

This is the second production-level release after the big re-design effort. It includes many bug fixes and new features, the most important being:

• auto-detection of the fonts installed on the system; the XML metrics generation is now optional;
• support for the collapsing-border model in tables;
• internal links in PDF now point to the exact location, and not to the top of the page;
• support for UAX#14 type line breaking. This annex of the Unicode standard specifies rules for breaking text into lines depending on the language used.

The complete list of changes is available at http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/0.94/changes_0.94.html

FOP 0.94 implements the XSL-FO 1.1 recommendation to a high degree of compliance. See the compliance page for a detailed overview: http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/compliance.html

For download information, see the following page: http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/download.html

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-- The Apache XML Graphics team,