| Original author(s) | James Tauber |
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| Developer(s) | Apache Software Foundation |
| Stable release | 1.0 / July 21, 2010 |
| Written in | Java |
| Operating system | Cross-platform |
| Type | XSL-FO |
| License | Apache License 2.0 |
| Website | http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop |
Formatting Objects Processor (FOP) is a Java application that converts XSL Formatting Objects (XSL-FO) files to PDF or other printable formats. FOP was originally developed by James Tauber who donated it to the Apache Software Foundation in 1999. It is part of the Apache XML Graphics project.
FOP is open source software, and is distributed under the Apache License 2.0.
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The latest version of Apache FOP is 1.0. This is the third stable release after a large redesign effort and implements a large subset of the XSL-FO Version 1.1 W3C Recommendation. In version 0.95, the code had undergone a substantial rewrite compared to 0.20.5 which was the previous stable version. As of release 0.91alpha, FOP became much more compliant to the XSL-FO Recommendation.
Most important elements added in XSL-FO 1.1 (flow maps, table markers, indexes. etc) are not available [1]
In addition, older XSL-FO 1.0 features are still not supported including automatic table layout, floats and more.
Apache FOP supports embedding a number of image formats in the XSL-FO (through the <fo:external-graphic> element). These include:
Apache FOP does not implement the <fo:float> element. External graphics objects are thus limited to being drawn inline or in a block with no wrapped text.
Apache FOP supports the following output formats:
In progress:
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