[FYI] Apache FOP 0.90BETA1 Trial

[Andrew Martynov]

Hello, Tommy!

Sorry for long reply.
Could you show me how to build PDF using new FOP version?

Please copy-paste couple of lines from your .bash_history.

I tried to generate Russian and other variants. All of my efforts was 
aborted with PDF file size just some bytes.

My build platform: 
 - RHEL 4 Update 2
 - IBM Java machine from Extras channel
 - FOP (new version)

Regards,
Andrew Martynov


On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 09:22:49PM -0600, Tommy Reynolds wrote:
> Hello, all!
> 
> This is a status update.  As you probably know, FDP intend to use
> Apache FOP to render the PDF versions of our documents.  The 0.20.5
> version is quite old; furious development is underway.
> 
> The Apache FOP team have made available a beta release of their
> heavily-rewritten product.  You can find out more from their
> 
> 	http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/relnotes.html
> 
> web site.  I tried it out against the CVS versions of the Fedora
> Release Notes and thought you might like to see the results.  You can
> find the English and Italian versions here:
> 
> 	http://www.megacoder.com/nobots/RELEASE-NOTES-en.pdf
> 	http://www.megacoder.com/nobots/RELEASE-NOTES-it.pdf
> 
> The Japanese version built, but the wrong font was used, so everything
> was a '#' character.  The Russian version aborted.
> 
> I think they look remarkably good, given that I used the original,
> mostly-generic PDF stylesheets.
> 
> I haven't tried to compile this using GCJ; that's out of my range.
> Perhaps one of you might make one attempt, just to see what happens.
> 
> As Karsten mentioned earlier, we should be getting some help with the
> graphics rendering component -- so we can avoid the closed-source
> libraries FOP uses.  However, if we stick with .JPG and .EPS input
> graphics, the built-in FOP support should be quite good enough.  We
> just need to get the GCJ compile going... Still, I prefer .PNG image
> files and am looking forward to the "correct" solution.
> 
> Cheers



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