Current state of Apache FOP?

[Andreas Jung <li...@andreas-jung.com>]

I am currently evaluating XSL-FO to produce PDF and RTF from XML/XHTML.
The Apache FOP project seems to be dead?! Is this impression true? 
Especially I am looking
at the pending RTF support in FOP but the last release seems to be from 
2003. Is there
something newer?

Andreas

Re: Favorite Bullet characters

[Chris Bowditch <bo...@hotmail.com>]

Siegfried Heintze wrote:

> I want to have nested html or powerpoint style bullets. Solid discs,
> circles, empty squares, solid squares, double greater thans, etc...
> 
> What are the favorite fonts and character codes for this?

ZapfDingbats is my favourite font for the bullet characters, because it is one 
of the base 14 fonts you get in a XSL-FO formatter for free.

● is filled circle
❍ is an empty circle
■ is a filled square

etc

Chris


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Favorite Bullet characters

[Siegfried Heintze <si...@heintze.com>]

I want to have nested html or powerpoint style bullets. Solid discs,
circles, empty squares, solid squares, double greater thans, etc...

What are the favorite fonts and character codes for this?

Thanks,
Siegfried


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Re: Current state of Apache FOP?

[Andreas Jung <an...@andreas-jung.com>]

--On Dienstag, 29. März 2005 9:24 Uhr +0200 Jeremias Maerki 
<de...@greenmail.ch> wrote:

> Not being able to create releases is one thing, a dead project is
> totally different. I've updated the status page a few days ago:
> http://xml.apache.org/fop/status.html

Ok..this makes things clearer :-)

>
> You're welcome to help improve RTF output. I've played with the idea to
> release the RTF part of FOP separately until the new layout engine is
> ready (RTF doesn't need it). That says something about the state of the
> RTF code. It's not very far from an initial release. But it needs a
> little work so why don't you just download the source code from CVS and
> start playing with it? I'll gladly review and apply patches for the RTF
> handler.

If we should decide to use to FOP for our project (we ship content (XHTML)
on CD/DVD on are looking for a solution to provide on-the-fly PDF/RTF 
generation
cross-platform on Windoze and Linux) then I am sure we might support the 
project
with some resources (especially because FOP is open-source and has a 
liberal license).

Andreas

Re: Current state of Apache FOP?

[Jeremias Maerki <de...@greenmail.ch>]

Not being able to create releases is one thing, a dead project is
totally different. I've updated the status page a few days ago:
http://xml.apache.org/fop/status.html

You're welcome to help improve RTF output. I've played with the idea to
release the RTF part of FOP separately until the new layout engine is
ready (RTF doesn't need it). That says something about the state of the
RTF code. It's not very far from an initial release. But it needs a
little work so why don't you just download the source code from CVS and
start playing with it? I'll gladly review and apply patches for the RTF
handler.

On 29.03.2005 09:11:32 Andreas Jung wrote:
> I am currently evaluating XSL-FO to produce PDF and RTF from XML/XHTML.
> The Apache FOP project seems to be dead?! Is this impression true? 
> Especially I am looking
> at the pending RTF support in FOP but the last release seems to be from 
> 2003. Is there
> something newer?
> 
> Andreas



Jeremias Maerki


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