ANNOUNCE: FOP 0.16 Release

Date:      Tue, 2 Jan 2001 21:09:22 -0400
From:      Arved Sandstrom <Arved_37@chebucto.ns.ca>
To:        xsl-list@lists.mulberrytech.com
Subject:   [xsl] ANNOUNCE: FOP 0.16 Release

FOP 0.16, the New Years release, is now available from http://xml.apache.org/fop/download.html. FOP is the Apache XML project's XSL-FO (Extensible Stylesheet Language Formatting Objects) processor. For details see http://xml.apache.org/fop/index.html.

Significant additions in this release include column support, hyphenation, and PDF compression. Tables have also received a lot of attention.

In the larger picture, work continues on filling in the gaps between the XSL Candidate Recommendation and FOP. We anticipate a production release which has at least Basic conformance in all areas by early-mid spring of this year. FOP is moving to TRAX for interfacing with XSLT processors, has active cooperation with Batik SVG (see http://xml.apache.org/batik/), and has a number of initiatives underway to field new fo:instream-foreign-object content processors and back-end renderers.

New developers are always welcome. FOP is an active and challenging Apache XML project.

Release Notice Date: 2 Jan 2001
FOP contact: Arved Sandstrom (arved@apache.org)

Features included since the 0.15 release:

support for multi-column and column spanning (column-count, column-gap, span)
compression for PDF files, changed output format to OutputStream
improved handling of compound properties
fo:character and property 'character' (limitation: not included into hyphenation, no Common Margin and Padding support)
vertical alignment for table cell contents
Finnish hyphenation patterns
hyphenation package, integration into FOP
interim configuration package
FopImage class that uses JAI and JAI compile target
support for rule-style
tables to handle headers, footers, keep-with, colspan is partly done
SVG stuff for the latest Java bindings

XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list

Prepared by Robin Cover for The XML Cover Pages archive. For related tools, see "XSL/XSLT Software Support."

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