fop-2.5

[Bruce Dubbs]

New minor version.

[thomas]

The Apache XML Graphics team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Apache FOP Version 2.5 [1].

Apache FOP (Formatting Objects Processor) [2] is an output independent print formatter driven by XSL Formatting Objects (XSL-FO) [3]. FOP is a Java application that reads a formatting object tree and renders the resulting pages to a specified output format, of which a variety of formats are supported. Apache FOP is published under the Apache License v2.0.

This release fixes a number of bugs. In addition the following significant functional enhancements are provided:

Allow to hide empty blocks from structure tree

For release notes see [4]. Source and binary distributions can be downloaded from an ASF Mirror at [5]. Further download information is available at [6]. Maven artifacts for this release are available at [7].

Note, that depending on which download mirror you use, it may take up to 24 hours to see the download images at [5].

• [1] ​http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/2.5/
• [2] ​http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop
• [3] ​http://www.w3.org/TR/xsl11/
• [4] ​http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/changes.html
• [5] ​http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/xmlgraphics/fop
• [6] ​http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/download.html
• [7] ​https://repository.apache.org/index.html#nexus-search;gav~org.apache.xmlgraphics~fop~2.5

The Apache XML Graphics team.

[Pierre Labastie]

fop-2.5 seems to require maven:

BUILD FAILED
/sources/fop/fop-2.5/fop/build.xml:618: Execute failed: java.io.IOException: Can
not run program "mvn" (in directory "/sources/fop/fop-2.5"): error=2, No such fi
le or directory

[Pierre Labastie]

Since anyway a maven binary is needed to build self, and it is only used for fop (in the book), maybe just download the binary when building fop and not install it.

[thomas]

Downloaded maven as binary.

cd ~/tmp
wget http://apache.mirror.iphh.net/maven/maven-3/3.6.3/binaries/apache-maven-3.6.3-bin.tar.gz
tar -xf apache-maven-3.6.3-bin.tar.gz
PATH=$PATH:$HOME/tmp/apache-maven-3.6.3/bin
cd ~/tmp/fop/build/fop-2.5/fop
...
ant all javadocs
...

builds fine, but mvn downloads 82MB of other binaries into $HOME/.m2/

[Pierre Labastie]

Did that too, and got almost 100MB. Will unpack the maven binary in /tmp, and go with that: maintaining a java stack is a book by itself...

[Pierre Labastie]

Fixed at r23156

[Bruce Dubbs]

Milestone renamed

[Bruce Dubbs]

Milestone renamed