Re: FOP - features I miss

[Pascal Sancho]

Hi Jan,

see below...

2013/12/9 Jan Tosovsky j.tosov...@email.cz:
 Dear All,

 I like the idea of FOP, i.e. open-source implementation of XSL-FO processor,
 but I have to admit it is still not mature enough for my projects.

 A) For automated production of product documentation I miss mainly:
 1. support for change bars (used in the review cycle phase) -
 https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FOP-1760
 2. enhanced index generating (at least merging same pages into a single
 item)

 B) For my hobby projects I require high quality typography so I miss:
 1. support for microtypography (protrusion, expansion)
 2. support for ligatures for non-english environments
 https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FOP-2093
 3. ability to typeset on grid

 While (A) is now handled by commercial XSL-FO product, for (B) I switched to
 TeX based solution (ConTeXt). None of these is ideal and I still believe one
 day FOP will replace them in my workflow. But I am rather sad from recent
 (in)activity.

 Is there any rough roadmap for next development?

There is no roadmap for our FOP project.
There is only a wiki page called User Requests  Most Wanted
Features (see [1]), but it is quite old.
That said, you can find in Jira [2] Improvement or New Feature
requests, [PATCH] from users, etc. that can figure what is
expected/realized.

Since FOP team is a quite small one, *all* volunteers are welcome. See
FOP dev general page [3] on how to contribute.

 Btw, in the light of new approaches I am curious what is the future of
 XSL-FO technology in general:
 https://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook-apps/201312/msg00019.html

 I hope FOP is not a next candidate for the abandonware list...

FOP is definitively an active project, and the FOP community is always
adding new features (in progress today: fo:inline-container support,
fo:multi-switch support, OTF handling, etc.)

 Regards, Jan

[1] http://wiki.apache.org/xmlgraphics-fop/MostWantedFeatures
[2] https://issues.apache.org/jira/
[3] http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/dev/

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HTML content in XML

[bhanu617]

Hi,

I am using FOP to generate PDF.
In my application user enters data through rich tecxt editors hence I am
getting HTML tags like br,p,*...etc
in my XML content.

But HTML tags are not effecting in generated PDF.
Please help me 



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RE: HTML content in XML

[Robert]

Hi,

If you mean that you want the content to go through to the PDF, you can use the 
CDATA tag:

fo:block![CDATA[dontparsethis]]/fo:block

This should allow the HTML tags into your PDF without them being parsed. 

If however you mean that the br is not creating a new line in the PDF, then 
you'd probably need to do something like parse the text content for the tags 
yourself and then generate the appropriate entries when the FO is being 
generated to get the desired effect.

Regards,

Robert Meyer

 Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2013 02:27:02 -0800
 From: bhanu...@gmail.com
 To: fop-users@xmlgraphics.apache.org
 Subject: HTML content in XML
 
 Hi,
 
 I am using FOP to generate PDF.
 In my application user enters data through rich tecxt editors hence I am
 getting HTML tags like br,p,*...etc
 in my XML content.
 
 But HTML tags are not effecting in generated PDF.
 Please help me 
 
 
 
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