Apache FOP is an XSL-FO formatter. It is used in
conjunction with an XSLT transformation engine to
format XML documents into PDF, PostScript, and
other output formats.
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Various bugfixes and new features, especially: improved font support, improvements for keeps, an event handling framework, and many improvements for AFP output.
This is the second production-level release after
the big redesign effort. It includes many bugfixes
and new features. The fonts installed on the
system are automatically detected. The XML metrics
generation is now optional. Support for the
collapsing-border model in tables was added.
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 was added. This
annex of the Unicode standard specifies rules for
breaking text into lines depending on the language
used.
This release is the successor of version 0.20.5, FOP's production grade version. It contains the new API first introduced in 0.92 beta; support for Open Type fonts; support for the rgb-icc() function and a proprietary cmyk() function; copy/paste from PDF content using embedded TrueType fonts; support for PDF/A-1b and PDF/X-3:2003; improved Java2D, print, and bitmap renderers; and automatic support for all Java2D fonts for TIFF, PNG, print, AWT rendering.
