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-Apache FOP (Formatting Objects Processor) is a print formatter driven
-by XSL formatting objects (XSL-FO) and an output independent formatter.
-It is a Java application that reads a formatting object (FO) tree and
-renders the resulting pages to a specified output.
+Apache FOP (Formatting Objects Processor) is a print formatter
+driven by XSL formatting objects (XSL-FO) and an output independent
+formatter. It is a Java application that reads a formatting object
+(FO) tree and renders the resulting pages to a specified output.
Output formats currently supported include PDF, PS, PCL, AFP, XML
-(area tree representation), Print, AWT and PNG, and to a lesser extent,
-RTF and TXT. The primary output target is PDF.
+(area tree representation), Print, AWT and PNG, and to a lesser
+extent, RTF and TXT. The primary output target is PDF.
The goals of the Apache FOP project are to deliver an XSL-FO to PDF
formatter that is compliant to at least the Basic conformance level
@@ -13,4 +13,13 @@ described in the W3C Recommendation from 05 December 2006, and that
complies with the November 2001 Portable Document Format Specification
(Version 1.4) from Adobe Systems.
-jai is an optional but recommended dependency.
+Conformance to the XML 1.0 and 1.1 Recommendations, XSLT 1.0 and 2.0
+Recommendations and the XML Namespaces Recommendation is understood.
+Other relevant documents, such as the XPath and XLink Working Drafts,
+are referenced as necessary. The FOP Project will attempt to use the
+latest version of evolving specifications.
+
+The original SB script required apache-maven, which needed to download
+over 200 prebuild .jar files. This script now simply repackages the
+binary package to avoid all this excessive downloading from within the
+script.