[ANN] Apache FOP 2.2 Released

[Simon Steiner <si...@gmail.com>]

The Apache XML Graphics team is pleased to announce the immediate
availability of Apache FOP Version 2.2 [1].

 

Apache FOP (Formatting Objects Processor) [2] is an output independent print
formatter driven by XSL Formatting Objects (XSL-FO) [3]. FOP is a Java
application that reads a formatting object tree and renders the resulting
pages to a specified output format, of which a variety of formats are
supported. Apache FOP is published under the Apache License v2.0.

 

This release fixes a number of bugs. In addition the following significant
functional enhancements are provided:

    PCL Color support

    Allow generation of bold/italic versions of fonts for PDF

    Allow to convert OTF fonts to Type 1 for Postscript

    Deduplicate PDF content streams

    Update to PDFBox 2

    Transition from Ant to Maven Build Process

 

For release notes see [4]. Source and binary distributions can be downloaded
from an ASF Mirror at [5]. Further download information is available at [6].
Maven artifacts for this release are available at [7].

 

Note, that depending on which download mirror you use, it may take up to 24
hours to see the download images at [5].

 

[1] http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/2.2/

[2] http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop

[3] http://www.w3.org/TR/xsl11/

[4] http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/changes.html

[5] http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/xmlgraphics/fop

[6] http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/download.html

[7]
https://repository.apache.org/index.html#nexus-search;gav~org.apache.xmlgrap
hics~fop~2.2~~

 

The Apache XML Graphics team.