source: pst/ps/fop.xml@ 829c219

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

  <!ENTITY fop-download-http "http://www.apache.org/dist/xml/fop/fop-&fop-version;-src.tar.gz">
  <!ENTITY fop-download-ftp  "ftp://apache.mirrors.pair.com/xml/fop/source/fop-&fop-version;-src.tar.gz">
  <!ENTITY fop-md5sum        "1a31eb1357e5d4b8d32d4cb3edae2da2">
  <!ENTITY fop-size          "7.8 MB">
  <!ENTITY fop-buildsize     "45.3 MB">
  <!ENTITY fop-time          "0.25 SBU">

  <!ENTITY jai-download      "http://javashoplm.sun.com/ECom/docs/Welcome.jsp?StoreId=22&amp;PartDetailId=jai-1_1_2_01-oth-JPR&amp;SiteId=JSC&amp;TransactionId=noreg">
  <!ENTITY jai-md5sum        "f2be3619a8d002eff3874355e96327eb">
  <!ENTITY jai-size          "2.6 MB">
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<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>

    <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 package</title>
      <listitem>
        <para><application>Java</application> Advanced Imaging (JAI) API
        components: <ulink url="&jai-download;">
        http://javashoplm.sun.com/ECom/docs/Welcome.jsp?StoreId=22&amp;</ulink>
        <ulink url="&jai-download;">
        PartDetailId=jai-1_1_2_01-oth-JPR&amp;SiteId=JSC&amp;TransactionId=noreg</ulink>
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Download MD5 sum: &jai-md5sum;</para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Download size: &jai-size;</para>
      </listitem>
    </itemizedlist>

    <para>Choose the <quote><application>Linux</application>
    <application>JDK</application> Install</quote> file after
    accepting the license agreement.</para>

    <itemizedlist spacing='compact'>
      <title>Required patch</title>
      <listitem>
        <para><ulink
        url="&patch-root;/fop-&fop-version;-jdk_1.5.0-1.patch"/></para>
      </listitem>
    </itemizedlist>

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

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Required</bridgehead>
    <para><xref linkend="jdk"/></para>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional</bridgehead>
    <para><xref linkend="libxslt"/>,
    <ulink url="http://java.sun.com/products/jimi/">JIMI SDK</ulink>,
    <ulink url="http://xml.apache.org/batik/">Batik</ulink> and
    <ulink url="http://forrest.apache.org/">Forrest</ulink> (only used to rebuild
    the documentation)</para>

  </sect2>

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

    <note>
      <para>Ensure <envar>$JAVA_HOME</envar> is set correctly before beginning
      the build.</para>
    </note>

    <para>Some versions of tar will display a message similar to
    <quote><computeroutput>tar: A lone zero block at 33476</computeroutput></quote>
    when unpacking the source tarball. You may safely ignore this message.</para>

    <sect3>
      <title>Installing JAI</title>

      <para>Install the JAI components by running the following commands as
      the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user while in the
      root of the <application>FOP</application> source tree:</para>

<screen role="root"><userinput>chmod 755 ../jai-1_1_2_01-lib-linux-i586-jdk.bin &amp;&amp;
FOP_BUILD_DIR=$(pwd) &amp;&amp;
cd $JAVA_HOME &amp;&amp;
yes | $FOP_BUILD_DIR/../jai-1_1_2_01-lib-linux-i586-jdk.bin &amp;&amp;
cd $FOP_BUILD_DIR</userinput></screen>

    </sect3>

    <sect3>
      <title>Installing FOP required components</title>

      <para>Install <application>FOP</application> by running the
      following commands:</para>

<screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../fop-&fop-version;-jdk_&jdk-src-version;-1.patch &amp;&amp;
./build.sh &amp;&amp;
sed -i -e "s/build/lib/" fop.sh</userinput></screen>

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

<screen role="root"><userinput>install -v -d -m755 \
    /opt/fop-&fop-version;/{bin,lib,docs/{general,lib,site}} &amp;&amp;
install -v -m755 fop.sh /opt/fop-&fop-version;/bin &amp;&amp;
install -v -m644 build/fop.jar lib/avalon-framework-cvs-20020806.jar \
    /opt/fop-&fop-version;/lib &amp;&amp;
install -v -m644 docs/* /opt/fop-&fop-version;/docs &amp;&amp;
install -v -m644 CHANGES LICENSE README ReleaseNotes.html STATUS \
    /opt/fop-&fop-version;/docs/general &amp;&amp;
install -v -m644 lib/{avalon.LICENSE.txt,readme} \
    /opt/fop-&fop-version;/docs/lib &amp;&amp;
cp -v -R build/site/* /opt/fop-&fop-version;/docs/site &amp;&amp;
ln -svf fop-&fop-version; /opt/fop</userinput></screen>

    </sect3>

    <sect3>
      <title>Installing the Batik JAR</title>

      <para>You'll need to install one additional <application>Java</application>
      class library to process SVG objects. This library is part of the
      <ulink url="http://xml.apache.org/batik/">Batik</ulink> package, but is
      also included with the <application>FOP</application> package. If you
      have <application>Batik</application> installed, ensure the
      <filename>batik.jar</filename> library is included in your
      <envar>$CLASSPATH</envar> environment variable. Alternatively, create a
      symbolic link from <filename>/opt/fop-&fop-version;/lib/batik.jar</filename>
      pointing to the full path of the installed <filename>batik.jar</filename>
      file so that the <command>fop.sh</command> script will automatically pick it
      up.</para>

      <para>If you don't have the <application>Batik</application> package
      installed, run the following commands as the <systemitem
      class="username">root</systemitem> user:</para>

<screen role="root"><userinput>install -v -m644 lib/batik.jar /opt/fop-&fop-version;/lib &amp;&amp;
install -v -m644 lib/batik.LICENSE.txt \
    /opt/fop-&fop-version;/docs/lib</userinput></screen>

    </sect3>

    <sect3>
      <title>Installing the Xalan-Java components</title>

      <para>The components of <application>FOP</application> required to
      process FO files created by an XSL transformation engine (also known
      as an XSLT processor) is now complete. An XSL transformation engine
      (<command>xsltproc</command>) is included with the
      <xref linkend="libxslt"/> package in BLFS. The
      <application>FOP</application> package includes components of
      <ulink url="http://xml.apache.org/xalan-j/">Xalan-Java</ulink> to
      accomplish XSL transformations. If you have the
      <application>Xalan-Java</application> package installed, skip to
      the next section.</para>

      <para>If you wish to install the <application>Xalan-Java</application>
      components provided by the <application>FOP</application>
      package, run the following commands as the <systemitem
      class="username">root</systemitem> user:</para>

<screen role="root"><userinput>sed -i -e "s/build/lib/" xalan.sh &amp;&amp;
install -v -m755 xalan.sh /opt/fop-&fop-version;/bin &amp;&amp;
install -v -m644 lib/xml-apis.jar \
                 lib/xercesImpl-2.2.1.jar \
                 lib/xalan-2.4.1.jar \
    /opt/fop-&fop-version;/lib &amp;&amp;
install -v -m644 lib/{xml-apis,xerces,xalan}.LICENSE.txt \
                 lib/xml-apis.README.txt \
    /opt/fop-&fop-version;/docs/lib</userinput></screen>

    </sect3>

    <sect3>
      <title>Installing the Jimi SDK JAR</title>

      <para>If you installed the Java Image I/O class library
      (<application>Jimi SDK</application>) into the
      <application>FOP</application> source tree
      <filename class='directory'>lib</filename> directory before building
      <application>FOP</application> (this will enable Jimi
      support), ensure you also install this JAR file into
      <filename class='directory'>/opt/fop-&fop-version;/lib</filename>.</para>

    </sect3>

  </sect2>

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

    <para><command>yes | $FOP_BUILD_DIR/../jai-...-jdk.bin</command>: This
    command installs the <application>JAI</application> components
    into the <application>JDK</application> file structure. The
    <command>yes</command> command is piped through so that you don't have to
    scroll through four pages of the license agreement and automatically responds
    <quote>yes</quote> to the agreement. <envar>$FOP_BUILD_DIR</envar> is used as
    a reference point to the source executable and as a method to return back to
    the <application>FOP</application> source tree.</para>

    <para><command>sed -i -e "s/build/lib/" ...</command>: These commands modify
    the installed shell scripts so that the location of the installed
    <filename>fop.jar</filename> file is correctly identified.</para>

    <para><command>install -v ...; cp -v ...</command>: There is no installation
    script provided by the <application>FOP</application>
    package. These commands install the package.</para>

    <para><command>ln -svf fop-&fop-version; /opt/fop</command>: This 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.sh</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.sh</command> script.
      This can be accomplished by creating a <filename>~/.foprc</filename> (which
      is sourced by the <command>fop.sh</command> script) and adding the parameter
      to the <envar>FOP_OPTS</envar> environment variable.</para>

      <para>The <command>fop.sh</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>[RAM_Installed]</replaceable>m"
FOP_HOME="/opt/fop"</literal>

EOF</userinput></screen>

      <para>Replace <replaceable>[RAM_Installed]</replaceable> with a number
      representing the amount of RAM installed in your computer. 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.sh</command> script in your path, update
      your personal or system-wide profile with the following:</para>

<screen><literal>PATH=$PATH:/opt/fop/bin</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.sh and xalan.sh</seg>
        <seg>avalon-framework-cvs-20020806.jar, batik.jar, fop.jar,
        xalan-2.4.1.jar, xercesImpl-2.2.1.jar, and xml-apis.jar. 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.sh">
        <term><command>fop.sh</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.sh">
            <primary sortas="b-fop.sh">fop.sh</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>