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:
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
The Apache XML Graphics team is pleased to announce a new release of Apache XML Graphics Commons.
Apache XML Graphics Commons is a library that consists of several reusable components used by Apache Batik and Apache FOP. Many of these components can easily be used separately outside the domains of SVG and XSL-FO.
This release is mostly a bugfix release for the image loading framework that has been introduced in version 1.3.
For a detailed list of changes, see http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/commons/changes.html
Source and binary distributions can be downloaded from the corresponding directories in an Apache Software Foundation mirror at: http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/xmlgraphics/commons. See also the download page: http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/commons/download.html
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-- The Apache XML Graphics Project Team
The Apache XML Graphics team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Apache FOP version 0.95beta.
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.
This beta release will be available for testing for some time, before a stable release is made. Feedback is welcome, and we would like to encourage as many people as possible to try it out and report bugs and issues on the fop-users mailing list [2]. The most important changes introduced by this release are:
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_0.95beta.html
For a more complete list of changes, please visit http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/0.95/changes_0.95beta.html
For download information, see the following page: http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/download.html
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-- The Apache XML Graphics team
The Apache XML Graphics team is pleased to announce a new release of Apache XML Graphics Commons.
Apache XML Graphics Commons is a library that consists of several reusable components used by Apache Batik and Apache FOP. Many of these components can easily be used separately outside the domains of SVG and XSL-FO.
The most important addition in this release is an image loading framework which supports all sorts of different image formats (bitmap and vector) and is highly extensible.
Besides that, there were a larger number of smaller additions and bugfixes.
Support for Java 1.3 has been dropped. Java 1.4 or later is required now.
For a detailed list of changes, see http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/commons/changes.html
Source and binary distributions can be downloaded from the corresponding directories in an Apache Software Foundation mirror at: http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/xmlgraphics/commons. See also the download page: http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/commons/download.html
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-- The Apache XML Graphics Team
The Apache Batik team is proud to announce the release of Apache Batik version 1.7, a Java-based toolkit for processing SVG.
The 1.7 release fixes a number of bugs brought to light with the 1.7beta1 release, and includes a few new features:
Batik can be downloaded from here:
http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/batik/download.cgi
For the full list of improvements and bug fixes since version 1.7beta1, click on the release change log's link from that page.
If you find any problems, please file bug reports:
http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/
And for more information, see the Batik project website:
http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/batik/
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-- The Apache Batik (XML Graphics) Team
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.
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:
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,
The Apache XML Graphics team is pleased to announce a new release of Apache XML Graphics Commons.
Apache XML Graphics Commons is a library that consists of several reusable components used by Apache Batik and Apache FOP. Many of these components can easily be used separately outside the domains of SVG and XSL-FO. You will find components such as a PDF library, an RTF library, Graphics2D implementations that let you generate PDF & PostScript files, and much more.
This release mainly adds support for CMYK and GRAY color spaces for PSGenerator. For a detailed list of changes, see http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/commons/changes.html
Source and binary distributions can be downloaded from the corresponding directories in an Apache Software Foundation mirror at: http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/xmlgraphics/commons. See also the download page: http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/commons/download.html
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-- The Apache XML Graphics Project
The Apache Batik team is proud to announce the long-awaited release of Apache Batik version 1.7beta1, a Java-based toolkit for processing SVG.
This is the first release of Batik in approximately two years, and brings many new features and improvements over version 1.6. Notable new features include:
Batik can be downloaded from here:
http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/batik/download.cgi
For the full list of improvements and bug fixes over version 1.6, click on the "release change log" link from that page.
The reasoning behind having a beta release rather than a full release is that there has been a great deal of changes since version 1.6, and while we believe the code to be reasonably stable, it would be beneficial to get feedback from users on any bugs that may have been missed. We plan to have a full 1.7 release in a month or two.
If you find any problems, please file bug reports:
http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/
And for more information, see the Batik project website:
http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/batik/
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-- The Apache Batik team (The Apache XML-Graphics Project)
The Apache FOP team is proud to announce the release of Apache FOP version 0.93.
The new codebase for FOP was started several years ago in order to achieve better compliance with the XSL-FO spec. After three alpha and beta releases, the new codebase has now reached production quality. Therefore we present version 0.93 as the successor of version 0.20.5, FOP's production grade version during the past years.
Compliance
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FOP 0.93 implements the XSL 1.0 and 1.1 recommendations to a high degree of compliance. See the compliance page http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/compliance.html for a detailed overview.
Known issues
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The known issues of FOP 0.93 are listed at http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/knownissues.html.
Upgrading
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You will experience different behaviour compared to version 0.20.5. Please consult the "Upgrading" page (http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/stable/upgrading.html) for details.
Major Changes in Version 0.93
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The long list of changes in this release is available at http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/0.93/changes_0.93.html.
The long list of changes in this and earlier releases is available at http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/changes.html.
The Apache FOP team asks you for your continued feedback on the software. We're also interested in success stories with the new release. So if the latest version works fine for you, please tell us. And if it doesn't, you may tell us as well, of course.
Release notes for older FOP versions can be found on: http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/relnotes.html
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The Apache XMLGraphics team (PMC) members are pleased to announce the new release of Apache XML Graphics Commons.
Apache XML Graphics Commons is a library that consists of several reusable components used by Apache Batik and Apache FOP. Many of these components can easily be used separately outside the domains of SVG and XSL-FO. You will find components such as a PDF library, an RTF library, Graphics2D implementations that let you generate PDF and PostScript files, and much more.
Important changes are:
See http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/commons/changes.html for the detailed list of changes.
Source and binary distributions can be downloaded from the corresponding directories in an Apache Software Foundation mirror at:
http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/xmlgraphics/commons.
See also the download page:
http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/commons/download.html
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-- The Apache XMLGraphics Team
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
The Apache FOP team hereby notifies you all of the release of FOP 0.91 beta, which includes various updates and bugfixes based on user feedback to the 0.90 alpha 1 release from about a month ago.
The changes made since 0.91 alpha can be found here: http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/changes.html
The following page contains the links to the various distributions: http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/download.html
To those of you still using FOP 0.20.5 we would like to repeat the request to go ahead and try out the redesigned FOP. The more feedback we get, the more likely it becomes that certain features and enhancements will find their way into the codebase. If you encounter problems when upgrading, please check the following page first: http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/0.91/upgrading.html
If the answer to your particular problem isn't mentioned there, the Apache FOP Team will be at your disposal on fop-users.AT.xmlgraphics.apache.org to help guide you to a working solution.
Code-grinders are, of course, always welcome to check out the source distribution and offer any ideas for enhancement and/or improvement on fop-dev.AT.xmlgraphics.apache.org.
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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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Apache XML Graphics Project Launched and New Website Has Been Created. This is one of the major steps of the Apache XML Project to promote its projects upwards and become a federation, or a central information repository, of all the XML-related projects at the ASF.
Apache XML Graphics Project is responsible for software licensed to the Apache Software Foundation intended for the creation & maintenance of:
Apache XML Graphics Project currently consists of the following sub-projects, each focused on a different aspect of XML Graphics:
Jeremias Maerki is the first Chair of the Apache XML Graphics PMC (Project Management Committee).