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06 August 2008 - Apache FOP 0.95 Released

Apache FOP (Formatting Objects Processor) is a print formatter driven by XSL Formatting Objects 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 TIFF/PNG. Apache FOP is Open Source software and published under the Apache License v2.0.

It took longer than expected but we're happy to present the final Apache FOP 0.95 stable release. This is basically a bugfix release to 0.95beta. The most important changes since the previous stable release (0.94) are:

• many bug fixes and improvements in tables, better support for keeps and breaks, new features: conditional borders and background on columns and header/footer/body;
• better image handling thanks to the new image loading framework provided by the Apache XML Graphics Commons dependency;
• improvements and bugfixes for font handling and font auto-detection/-registration;
• performance improvements and memory optimizations for the property handling in the FO tree.
• elimination of a potential multi-threading problem.
• some feature enhancements for RTF output (partial fo:leader support, fo:page-number-citation)

Please note that support for Java 1.3 has been dropped. Only one type of binaries is provided now, that will run on 1.4+ JREs.

Other important release notes are available at http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/0.95/releaseNotes_0.95.html

For a more complete list of changes, please visit http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/0.95/changes_0.95.html

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

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-- The Apache XML Graphics 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/