- From: Vincent Hennebert <vincent.hennebert@anyware-tech.com>
- Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2008 12:48:29 +0000
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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: - 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. 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 [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/xsl11/ [2] http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/maillist.html#fop-user On behalf of the XML Graphics team, Vincent Hennebert
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