source: pst/ps/fop.xml@ 75d53372

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

  <!ENTITY fop-download-http "http://archive.apache.org/dist/xmlgraphics/fop/source/fop-&fop-version;-src.tar.gz">
  <!ENTITY fop-download-ftp  " ">
  <!ENTITY fop-md5sum        "95dcc4c2dd08b4bc88ce9ce1ee88c439">
  <!ENTITY fop-size          "16.1 MB">
  <!ENTITY fop-buildsize     "360 MB">
  <!ENTITY fop-time          "2.8 SBU">

  <!ENTITY jai-version       "1_1_3">
  <!ENTITY jai-download      "http://download.java.net/media/jai/builds/release/&jai-version;/jai-&jai-version;-lib-linux-i586.tar.gz">
  <!ENTITY jai-md5sum        "a2cbc155ef3899bcde9c74a8035764b3">
  <!ENTITY jai-size          "3.4 MB">

  <!ENTITY jai64-download    "http://download.java.net/media/jai/builds/release/&jai-version;/jai-&jai-version;-lib-linux-amd64.tar.gz">
  <!ENTITY jai64-md5sum      "4a906db35612f668aeef2c0606d7075b">
  <!ENTITY jai64-size        "3.4 MB">

  <!ENTITY offo-download     "&sourceforge-repo;/offo/offo-hyphenation_v2.0.zip">
  <!ENTITY offo-md5sum       "a78171d47c9af223c51bbd42df36f26d">
  <!ENTITY offo-size         "858 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>

    &lfs70_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 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>
      <listitem>
        <para>Java Advanced Imaging (JAI) API components (architecture dependent):
          <simplelist>
            <member><ulink url="&jai-download;"/></member>
            <member>&jai-md5sum;</member>
            <member>&jai-size;</member>
          </simplelist>
          <simplelist>
            <member><ulink url="&jai64-download;"/></member>
            <member>&jai64-md5sum;</member>
            <member>&jai64-size;</member>
          </simplelist>
        </para>
      </listitem>
    </itemizedlist>

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

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Required</bridgehead>
    <para role="required">
      <xref linkend="xorg7"/> and 
      <xref linkend="apache-ant"/>
    </para>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional</bridgehead>
    <para role="optional">
      <ulink url="http://java.sun.com/products/jimi/">JIMI SDK</ulink>,
      <ulink url="http://xmlunit.sourceforge.net/">XMLUnit</ulink>,
      <ulink url="https://jai-imageio.dev.java.net/">JAI Image I/O Tools</ulink>,
      <ulink url="http://jeuclid.sourceforge.net/">JEuclid</ulink>,
      <ulink url="http://pmd.sourceforge.net">PMD</ulink>
          (requires <ulink url="http://jaxen.codehaus.org/">Jaxen</ulink>), and
      <ulink url="http://forrest.apache.org/">Forrest</ulink> (Forrest used only
      to rebuild the documentation)
    </para>

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

  </sect2>

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

    <important>
      <para>You must run this installation from an X-window using a GL-aware
      <application>Xorg</application> server or some of the
      <application>JUnit</application> tests will hang.</para>
    </important>

    <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>First, unpack the <application>fop</application> source tarball and
      the hyphenation zipfile from the same directory, then change directories
      into the root of the <application>fop</application> source tree. Copy the
      XML hyphenation patterns into the <application>fop</application> source
      tree by running the following commands:</para>

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

    </sect3>

    <sect3>
      <title>Installing Java Advanced Imaging (JAI) API components</title>

      <para>Next install the JAI API components. As the <systemitem
      class="username">root</systemitem> user:</para>

<screen><userinput>case `uname -m` in
  i?86)   
    tar -xf ../jai-&jai-version;-lib-linux-i586.tar.gz  
    cp -v jai-&jai-version;/lib/{jai*,mlibwrapper_jai.jar} $JAVA_HOME/jre/lib/ext/
    cp -v jai-&jai-version;/lib/libmlib_jai.so             $JAVA_HOME/jre/lib/i386/
    ;;

  x86_64) 
    tar -xf ../jai-&jai-version;-lib-linux-amd64.tar.gz 
    cp -v jai-&jai-version;/lib/{jai*,mlibwrapper_jai.jar} $JAVA_HOME/jre/lib/ext/
    cp -v jai-&jai-version;/lib/libmlib_jai.so             $JAVA_HOME/jre/lib/amd64/
    ;;
esac</userinput></screen>

    </sect3>

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

      <para>If <application>Forrest</application> is not installed, remove
      a reference to it in the build.xml:</para>

<screen><userinput>sed -i -e "s/all,javadocs,docs/all,javadocs/" \
       -e '\#${dist.bin.result.dir}/docs#,\#&lt;/copy&gt;#d' build.xml</userinput></screen>

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

<screen><userinput>ant dist</userinput></screen>

      <para>The unit regression tests were performed in the build step
      above.</para>

      <para>Now, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem>
      user:</para>

<screen role="root"><userinput>install -v -d -m755      /opt/fop-&fop-version; &amp;&amp;
mv -v dist-bin/fop-&fop-version;/* /opt/fop-&fop-version; &amp;&amp;
ln -v -sf fop-&fop-version; /opt/fop</userinput></screen>

    </sect3>

  </sect2>

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

    <para><command>ant dist</command>: This reads the
    <filename>build.xml</filename> file's <option>dist</option> target,
    builds the package and runs the unit regression tests. It also creates the
    Java API documentation and a directory where the newly created binaries
    are placed. This directory is used to install <application>fop</application>
    into its final place.</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>. 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 your personal or system-wide profile with the following:</para>

<screen><literal>PATH=$PATH:/opt/fop</literal></screen>

    </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>