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Apache FOP (Formatting Objects Processor)

Module by: Hannes Hirzel. E-mail the author

Summary: The Apache Formatting Objects Processor (FOP) comes with a considerable number of example XSL-FO documents which are useful to learn the the XSL-FO language. It is shown how to shown how to set up FOP and run an example.

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Introduction

In the module XSL Formatting Objects an introduction into XSL-FO is given. In this module we are going to run example programs using the Apache Formatting Objects Processor (FOP). This program is mostly used to produce PDF files.

Installation

Make sure you have a Java Runtime Environment (JRE) installed.

Download FOP from xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/download. Go for a binary download, e.g. fop-1.0-bin.zip. Unzip the file.

For the following it is assumed that the unizipped files are in C:\Documents and Settings\hirzel\My Documents\fop-1.0.

Running the examples

Open a command window or terminal and change the directory to fop-1.0.

Execute the following command fop examples\fo\basic\readme.fo result.pdf.

C:\Documents and Settings\hirzel\My Documents\fop-1.0>fop examples\fo\basic\readme.fo result.pdf

This means that the Apache fop processor is called with readme.fo in the subdirectory examples\fo\basic as input file. The result is put into the file result.pdf.

You may explore the examples folder for more and run them accordingly.

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