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Posted to fop-dev@xmlgraphics.apache.org by Christian Geisert <ch...@isu-gmbh.de> on 2002/06/13 18:10:06 UTC
[ANNOUNCEMENT] FOP 0.20.4 Release Candidate available
Hi all,
the Release Candidate for 0.20.4 is available at
http://xml.apache.org/dist/fop for downloading and testing.
It is planed to make the actual release in about a week (or two?)
if no serious bugs show up.
Changes since 0.20.3 include:
- Support for background-image
- FOP should now work with any JAXP1.1 compliant parser/transformer
- The following JARs have been updated: Xerces to version 2.0.1, Xalan
to version 2.3.1 and Batik to version 1.5beta2.
- Fop has been compiled with Jimi support
- Logging has been changed from LogKit to Avalon's Logger Interface
- New hyphenation patterns: turkish, portuguese and czech
- FOP should now work on a EBCDIC maschine
- Support for comma-separated values for the font-family property
- Russian and Czech messages for AWTViewer
For details see CHANGES file:
http://cvs.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/xml-fop/CHANGES?rev=1.10.2.19
Feedback/bugreports are welcome especially (but of course not limited)
for the following issues:
- compiling FOP with Jdk1.4 under Windows
- running FOP on a EBCDIC maschine
- running FOP from Win98/ME command line
- processing FOP generated PDFs with RIP engines/preflight (?) tools
- custom font loading with BaseDir property
Needs to be done for the release:
- check documentation (new jar versions, classpath etc.)
- anything missing in Release Notes/CHANGES ?
(apart from fixing my english ;-)
Enjoy,
Christian
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Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] FOP 0.20.4 Release Candidate available
Posted by Oleg Tkachenko <ol...@multiconn.com>.
Christian Geisert wrote:
> Another potential for saving space are the included jars
> (stuff like schema parser and html/wml-dom in xerces.jar,
> SAX/DOM in batik.jar etc.)
btw, what about crimson parser? Its jar is only about 200Kb and it's
apache also.
--
Oleg Tkachenko
Multiconn International Ltd
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Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] FOP 0.20.4 Release Candidate available
Posted by Christian Geisert <ch...@isu-gmbh.de>.
Keiron Liddle schrieb:
> Hi all,
>
> I was just wondering why the distributions are so large and also larger
> than the previous release.
Me too
> The src release contains the generated html and javadocs which is about
> an extra 2.5Mb compressed (18Mb uncompressed).
+1 for removing java-docs
I'm not sure about html-docs (because they contain information about
compiling etc), maybe just remove html-docs/design (which is the biggest
part)
> The bin release contains the xml-docs and the html-docs, ant.jar and the
> hyphenation xml files. This adds about 1.25Mb to the compressed size.
> I know there are reasons for this but is it that useful. The ant jar is
> only to convert some fo files. The hyph and xml-docs are there for
> reference I suppose.
Or because nobody thought about it yet ...
(+1 for removing xml-docs and hyph, +0 for removing ant)
> It would seem to me we could make the dists a bit smaller so it is
> easier to download and use.
And faster to upload ;-)
Another potential for saving space are the included jars
(stuff like schema parser and html/wml-dom in xerces.jar,
SAX/DOM in batik.jar etc.)
> Keiron.
Christian
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Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] FOP 0.20.4 Release Candidate available
Posted by Durai Murugan <rd...@yahoo.com>.
Yes,
The file is so large and takes hours to download. It can
be distributed by dicritizing the elements of FOP package.
So that it can downloaded when required.
durai
--- Keiron Liddle <ke...@aftexsw.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I was just wondering why the distributions are so large
> and also larger
> than the previous release.
> The src release contains the generated html and javadocs
> which is about
> an extra 2.5Mb compressed (18Mb uncompressed).
>
> The bin release contains the xml-docs and the html-docs,
> ant.jar and the
> hyphenation xml files. This adds about 1.25Mb to the
> compressed size.
> I know there are reasons for this but is it that useful.
> The ant jar is
> only to convert some fo files. The hyph and xml-docs are
> there for
> reference I suppose.
> It would seem to me we could make the dists a bit smaller
> so it is
> easier to download and use.
>
>
> Keiron.
>
> On Thu, 2002-06-13 at 18:10, Christian Geisert wrote:
> > the Release Candidate for 0.20.4 is available at
> > http://xml.apache.org/dist/fop for downloading and
> testing.
>
>
>
>
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Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] FOP 0.20.4 Release Candidate available
Posted by Keiron Liddle <ke...@aftexsw.com>.
Hi all,
I was just wondering why the distributions are so large and also larger
than the previous release.
The src release contains the generated html and javadocs which is about
an extra 2.5Mb compressed (18Mb uncompressed).
The bin release contains the xml-docs and the html-docs, ant.jar and the
hyphenation xml files. This adds about 1.25Mb to the compressed size.
I know there are reasons for this but is it that useful. The ant jar is
only to convert some fo files. The hyph and xml-docs are there for
reference I suppose.
It would seem to me we could make the dists a bit smaller so it is
easier to download and use.
Keiron.
On Thu, 2002-06-13 at 18:10, Christian Geisert wrote:
> the Release Candidate for 0.20.4 is available at
> http://xml.apache.org/dist/fop for downloading and testing.
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Logging
Posted by Eric Smith <Er...@fruitcom.com>.
Is there logging available with fop that I perhaps am not aware
of. The only logging or verposity I know about is the -d flag
and the stack trace on failure.
Problem I have often related to compiling certain images and in
this case fop just prints the page numbers [1] [2] ... [infinity]
thanx
--
Eric Smith
Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] FOP 0.20.4 Release Candidate available
Posted by Christian Geisert <ch...@isu-gmbh.de>.
Martin Peřina schrieb:
[..]
> It works fine, just two things:
>
> 1) If baseDir is set for example to "/opt/fop", FOP doesn't
> add "/" at the end of baseDir as other systems commonly does,
> so you can start use path for fonts like this:
>
> <font metrics-file="../fop-fonts/arial-regular.xml"
> kerning="yes"
> embed-file="../fop-fonts/arial-regular.ttf">
> <font-triplet name="Arial" style="normal" weight="normal"/>
> </font>
Good point, I'll add this.
>
>
> 2) It would be nice, if baseDir can be set like Java property
> on the command line, for example:
>
> java -cp $FOP_CP -DbaseDir=/opt/fop org.apache.fop.apps.Fop a.fo
>
> Then there won't be any absolute paths in userconfig.xml.
This should be considered for the configuration handling for the redesign
> I have one more question. Will there be any improvements with
> implementation of last-line-end-indent property in 0.20.4?
> DocBook stylesheets use it for generating TOC and without this
> property it doesn't look nice.
Yes I know the problem but there has been no fix yet
(it's still on my todo list)
> Martin Perina
Thanks for your feedback.
Christian
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Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] FOP 0.20.4 Release Candidate available
Posted by Martin Peřina <ma...@osu.cz>.
On Čt, 2002-06-13 at 18:10, Christian Geisert wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> the Release Candidate for 0.20.4 is available at
> http://xml.apache.org/dist/fop for downloading and testing.
>
> It is planed to make the actual release in about a week (or two?)
> if no serious bugs show up.
>
> Changes since 0.20.3 include:
>
> - Support for background-image
> - FOP should now work with any JAXP1.1 compliant parser/transformer
> - The following JARs have been updated: Xerces to version 2.0.1, Xalan
> to version 2.3.1 and Batik to version 1.5beta2.
> - Fop has been compiled with Jimi support
> - Logging has been changed from LogKit to Avalon's Logger Interface
> - New hyphenation patterns: turkish, portuguese and czech
> - FOP should now work on a EBCDIC maschine
> - Support for comma-separated values for the font-family property
> - Russian and Czech messages for AWTViewer
>
> For details see CHANGES file:
> http://cvs.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/xml-fop/CHANGES?rev=1.10.2.19
>
>
> Feedback/bugreports are welcome especially (but of course not limited)
> for the following issues:
>
> - compiling FOP with Jdk1.4 under Windows
On Linux with Sun J2SDK 1.4.0_01 it compiles fine.
> - running FOP on a EBCDIC maschine
> - running FOP from Win98/ME command line
> - processing FOP generated PDFs with RIP engines/preflight (?) tools
> - custom font loading with BaseDir property
It works fine, just two things:
1) If baseDir is set for example to "/opt/fop", FOP doesn't
add "/" at the end of baseDir as other systems commonly does,
so you can start use path for fonts like this:
<font metrics-file="../fop-fonts/arial-regular.xml"
kerning="yes"
embed-file="../fop-fonts/arial-regular.ttf">
<font-triplet name="Arial" style="normal" weight="normal"/>
</font>
2) It would be nice, if baseDir can be set like Java property
on the command line, for example:
java -cp $FOP_CP -DbaseDir=/opt/fop org.apache.fop.apps.Fop a.fo
Then there won't be any absolute paths in userconfig.xml.
>
>
> Needs to be done for the release:
> - check documentation (new jar versions, classpath etc.)
> - anything missing in Release Notes/CHANGES ?
> (apart from fixing my english ;-)
I have one more question. Will there be any improvements with
implementation of last-line-end-indent property in 0.20.4?
DocBook stylesheets use it for generating TOC and without this
property it doesn't look nice.
Martin Perina
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