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diff --git a/office/fop/README b/office/fop/README index fe7aab4c22..b12fb8a1cb 100644 --- a/office/fop/README +++ b/office/fop/README @@ -1,11 +1,11 @@ -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. |