source: pst/ps/fop.xml@ 3f01767

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  <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
  %general-entities;

  <!ENTITY fop-download-http "https://archive.apache.org/dist/xmlgraphics/fop/source/fop-&fop-version;-src.tar.gz">
  <!ENTITY fop-download-ftp  " ">
  <!ENTITY fop-md5sum        "e379d5916bc705b6fd3808a77f5d8478">
  <!ENTITY fop-size          "26 MB">
  <!ENTITY fop-buildsize     "252 MB ">
  <!ENTITY fop-time          "0.4 SBU">

  <!ENTITY pdfbox-version    "2.0.17">
  <!ENTITY pdfbox-download   "http://mirror.reverse.net/pub/apache/pdfbox/&pdfbox-version;/pdfbox-&pdfbox-version;.jar">
  <!ENTITY pdfbox-md5sum     "c713a8e252d0add65e9282b151adf6b4">
  <!ENTITY pdfbox-size       "2.6 MB">

  <!ENTITY fontbox-download  "http://mirror.reverse.net/pub/apache/pdfbox/&pdfbox-version;/fontbox-&pdfbox-version;.jar">
  <!ENTITY fontbox-md5sum    "25d3b08b7105f03ab62a5360f874bdf1">
  <!ENTITY fontbox-size      "1.5 MB">

  <!ENTITY offo-download     "&sourceforge-dl;/offo/2.2/offo-hyphenation.zip">
  <!ENTITY offo-md5sum       "bf9c09bf05108ef9661b8f08d91c2336">
  <!ENTITY offo-size         "862 KB">
]>

<sect1 id="fop" xreflabel="fop-&fop-version;">
  <?dbhtml filename="fop.html"?>

  <sect1info>
    <othername>$LastChangedBy$</othername>
    <date>$Date$</date>
  </sect1info>

  <title>fop-&fop-version;</title>

  <indexterm zone="fop">
    <primary sortas="a-fop">fop</primary>
  </indexterm>

  <sect2 role="package">
    <title>Introduction to fop</title>

    <para>
      The <application>FOP</application> (Formatting Objects Processor)
      package contains a print formatter driven by XSL formatting objects
      (XSL-FO). It is a <application>Java</application> application that reads
      a formatting object tree and renders the resulting pages to a specified
      output. Output formats currently supported include PDF, PCL, PostScript,
      SVG, XML (area tree representation), print, AWT, MIF and ASCII text. The
      primary output target is PDF.
    </para>

    &lfs90_checked;

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Package Information</bridgehead>
    <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
      <listitem>
        <para>Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&fop-download-http;"/></para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Download (FTP): <ulink url="&fop-download-ftp;"/></para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Download MD5 sum: &fop-md5sum;</para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Download size: &fop-size;</para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Estimated disk space required: &fop-buildsize;</para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Estimated build time: &fop-time;</para>
      </listitem>
    </itemizedlist>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Additional Downloads</bridgehead>
    <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
      <title>Required Additional Downloads:</title>
      <listitem>
        <para>PDFBox:
          <simplelist>
            <member><ulink url="&pdfbox-download;"/></member>
            <member>&pdfbox-md5sum;</member>
            <member>&pdfbox-size;</member>
          </simplelist>
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>PDFBox Fonts:
          <simplelist>
            <member><ulink url="&fontbox-download;"/></member>
            <member>&fontbox-md5sum;</member>
            <member>&fontbox-size;</member>
          </simplelist>
        </para>
      </listitem>
    </itemizedlist>

    <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
      <title>Recommended packages</title>
      <listitem>
        <para>Objects for Formatting Objects (OFFO) hyphenation patterns:
          <simplelist>
            <member><ulink url="&offo-download;"/></member>
            <member>&offo-md5sum;</member>
            <member>&offo-size;</member>
          </simplelist>
        </para>
      </listitem>
    </itemizedlist>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">fop Dependencies</bridgehead>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Required</bridgehead>
    <para role="required">
      <xref linkend="apache-ant"/>
    </para>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional</bridgehead>
    <para role="optional">
<!-- Included into ant      <xref linkend="junit"/> (to run tests),-->
      <xref linkend="x-window-system"/> (to run tests),
<!--      <xref linkend="maven"/> (an alternate build system), not funcional
      with fop-2.3          -->
      <ulink url="http://jai-tools.blogspot.com/">JAI Image I/O Tools</ulink>, and
      <ulink url="http://jeuclid.sourceforge.net/">JEuclid</ulink>
<!-- [pierre 2017-04-29] Note to devs: there are a lot of bundled dependencies.
     Some were listed here, but not all. I am not sure it is possible to
     use system ones. So, I have removed them, an kept only those which
     are not bundled. -->
    </para>

    <para condition="html" role="usernotes">User Notes:
    <ulink url="&blfs-wiki;/fop"/></para>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="installation">
    <title>Installation of fop</title>

    <para>
      Ensure <envar>$JAVA_HOME</envar> is set correctly before beginning
      the build. To build the <application>JIMI SDK</application> and/or
      <application>XMLUnit</application> extension classes, ensure the
      corresponding <filename class='extension'>.jar</filename> files can be
      found via the <envar>CLASSPATH</envar> environment variable.
    </para>

    <sect3>
      <title>Installing OFFO Hyphenation Patterns</title>

      <para>
        Copy the XML hyphenation patterns into the fop source tree by running
        the following commands:
      </para>

<screen><userinput>unzip ../offo-hyphenation.zip &amp;&amp;
cp offo-hyphenation/hyph/* fop/hyph &amp;&amp;
rm -rf offo-hyphenation</userinput></screen>

    </sect3>

    <sect3>
      <title>Installing fop Components</title>

      <para>
        The <command>javadoc</command> command that ships with OpenJDK 10 and
        later has
        become much stricter than previous versions regarding conformance of
        the Javadoc comments in source code to HTML. The FOP documentation does
        not meet those standards, so the conformance checks have to be
        disabled. This can be done with the following command:
      </para>

<screen><userinput>sed -i '\@&lt;/javad@i\
&lt;arg value="-Xdoclint:none"/&gt;\
&lt;arg value="--allow-script-in-comments"/&gt;\
&lt;arg value="--ignore-source-errors"/&gt;' \
    fop/build.xml</userinput></screen>

      <para>
        The stack size set in <filename>build.xml</filename> for building the
        hyphenation patterns is not large enough. Change it by running:
      </para>

<screen><userinput>sed -e '/hyph\.stack/s/512k/1M/' \
    -i fop/build.xml</userinput></screen>

      <para>
        With <xref linkend="openjdk"/>, the minimum source version is 1.7,
        while <application>FOP</application> build system has 1.6. Change that:
      </para>

<screen><userinput>sed -e 's/1\.6/1.7/' \
    -i fop/build.xml</userinput></screen>

      <para>
        The <filename>build.xml</filename> file calls for an old version of
        <application>PDFBox</application> components that are no longer
        available. Copy the updated PDFBox components into the source tree:
      </para>

<screen><userinput>cp ../{pdf,font}box-&pdfbox-version;.jar fop/lib</userinput></screen>

      <para>
        Compile <application>fop</application> by running the following
        commands:
      </para>

<screen><userinput>cd fop                    &amp;&amp;
export LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 &amp;&amp;
ant all javadocs          &amp;&amp;
mv build/javadocs .</userinput></screen>

      <para>
        The <application>junit</application> test suite was run as part of the
        above commands.
      </para>
 
      <para>
        Now, install <application>Fop</application> as the
        <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:
      </para>

<screen role="root"><userinput>install -v -d -m755 -o root -g root          /opt/fop-&fop-version; &amp;&amp;
cp -vR build conf examples fop* javadocs lib /opt/fop-&fop-version; &amp;&amp;
chmod a+x /opt/fop-&fop-version;/fop                                &amp;&amp;
ln -v -sfn fop-&fop-version; /opt/fop</userinput></screen>

    </sect3>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="commands">
    <title>Command Explanations</title>

    <para>
      <command>sed -i ... build.xml</command>: This adds two switches to the
      <command>javadoc</command> command, preventing some errors to occur when
      building the documentation.
    </para>

    <para>
      <command>export LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8</command>: the compiler fails if using
      an ASCII locale.
    </para>

    <para>
      <command>ant <option>target</option></command>: This reads the file
      <filename>build.xml</filename> and builds the target: <option>compile
      </option> compiles the java sources, <option>jar-main</option> generates
      jar archives, <option>jar-hyphenation</option> generates the hyphenation
      patterns for FOP, <option>junit</option> runs the
      <application>junit</application> tests, and <option>javadocs</option>
      builds the documentation. The <option>all</option> target runs all of the
      above.
    </para>

    <para>
      <command>ln -v -sf fop-&fop-version; /opt/fop</command>: This is
      optional and creates a convenience symlink so that
      <envar>$FOP_HOME</envar> doesn't have to be changed each time there's a
      package version change.
    </para>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="configuration">
    <title>Configuring fop</title>

    <sect3 id="fop-config">
      <title>Config Files</title>

      <para>
        <filename>~/.foprc</filename>
      </para>

      <indexterm zone="fop fop-config">
        <primary sortas="e-AA.foprc">~/.foprc</primary>
      </indexterm>

    </sect3>

    <sect3>
      <title>Configuration Information</title>

      <para>
        Using <application>fop</application> to process some large FO's
        (including the FO derived from the BLFS XML sources), can lead to
        memory errors. Unless you add a parameter to the
        <command>java</command> command used in the <command>fop</command>
        script you may receive messages similar to the one shown below:
      </para>

      <para>
        <computeroutput>
          Exception in thread "main" java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap
          space
        </computeroutput>
      </para>

      <para>
        To avoid errors like this, you need to pass an extra parameter to
        the <command>java</command> command used in the <command>fop</command>
        script. This can be accomplished by creating a
        <filename>~/.foprc</filename> (which is sourced by the
        <command>fop</command> script) and adding the parameter to the
        <envar>FOP_OPTS</envar> environment variable.
      </para>

      <para>
        The <command>fop</command> script looks for a
        <envar>FOP_HOME</envar> environment variable to locate the
        <application>fop</application> class libraries. You can create this
        variable using the <filename>~/.foprc</filename> file as well. Create
        a <filename>~/.foprc</filename> file using the following commands:
      </para>

<screen><userinput>cat &gt; ~/.foprc &lt;&lt; "EOF"
<literal>FOP_OPTS="-Xmx<replaceable>&lt;RAM_Installed&gt;</replaceable>m"
FOP_HOME="/opt/fop"</literal>
EOF</userinput></screen>

      <para>
        Replace <replaceable>&lt;RAM_Installed&gt;</replaceable> with a
        number representing the amount of RAM installed in your computer (in
        megabytes). An example would be
        <userinput>FOP_OPTS="-Xmx768m"</userinput>.
        <!--  the URL is broken
        For more information about
        memory issues running <application>fop</application>, see
        <ulink url="http://xml.apache.org/fop/running.html#memory"/>.
        -->
      </para>

      <para>
        To include the <command>fop</command> script in your path,
        update the system-wide profile with the following command as the
        <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:
      </para>

<screen role="root"><userinput>cat &gt; /etc/profile.d/fop.sh &lt;&lt; "EOF"
<literal># Begin /etc/profile.d/fop.sh

pathappend /opt/fop

# End /etc/profile.d/fop.sh</literal>
EOF</userinput></screen>

      <note>
        <para>
          Running <command>fop</command> can be somewhat verbose.
          The default logging level can be changed from INFO to any of
          FINEST, FINER, FINE, CONFIG, INFO, WARNING, SEVERE, ALL, or OFF.
          To do this, edit
          <filename>$JAVA_HOME/jre/lib/logging.properties</filename> and change
          the entries for <option>.level</option> and
          <option>java.util.logging.ConsoleHandler.level</option> to
          the desired value.
        </para>
      </note>

    </sect3>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="content">
    <title>Contents</title>

    <segmentedlist>
      <segtitle>Installed Programs</segtitle>
      <segtitle>Installed Libraries</segtitle>
      <segtitle>Installed Directory</segtitle>

      <seglistitem>
        <seg>fop</seg>
        <seg>fop.jar and numerous support library classes located in
        <filename class='directory'>/opt/fop/{build,lib}</filename>; JAI
        components include libmlib_jai.so, jai_codec.jar, jai_core.jar, and
        mlibwrapper_jai.jar</seg>
        <seg>/opt/fop-&fop-version;</seg>
      </seglistitem>
    </segmentedlist>

    <variablelist>
      <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
      <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
      <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>

      <varlistentry id="fop-prog">
        <term><command>fop</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>is a wrapper script to the <command>java</command> command
          which sets up the <application>fop</application>
          environment and passes the required parameters.</para>
          <indexterm zone="fop fop-prog">
            <primary sortas="b-fop">fop</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="fop.jar">
        <term><filename class='libraryfile'>fop.jar</filename></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>contains all the <application>fop</application>
          <application>Java</application> classes.</para>
          <indexterm zone="fop fop.jar">
            <primary sortas="c-fop.jar">fop.jar</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

    </variablelist>

  </sect2>

</sect1>