Hi Davide On 15.12.2008 15:34:33 Davide Daccico wrote: > Hi, > > I'm new on FOP (but legacy afp expert which could help apache community) and > would like to know evaluate AFP renderer capabilities. > > I really need some info: > 1) How to setup a simple job to render an AFPDS stream (with embedded > fonts);
You'll find all AFP-specific information under the following link: http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/trunk/output.html#afp It should tell you how to set up the fonts in the configuration file. If you have trouble setting this up, just come back to this mailing list and we'll try to help. But frankly, I'm not sure if the AFP renderer actually supports embedding fonts. I believe they are always referenced but I could be wrong. I suggest you start with XSL-FO experiments with PDF output because that's the most common case. http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/quickstartguide.html Once you have that under control, it should be a little step to get AFP output to work. You can work either off FOP 0.95 but we'd appreciate if you could run tests with FOP Trunk (containing some new features in the AFP part). That's a tad more difficult as it involves getting the source code and building FOP yourself. But that's all explained on the website: http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/trunk/compiling.html > 2) Get an AFP roadmap about FOP engine (what/when about improvements); As Andreas already said, there's not much of a roadmap. We don't have an abundance of resources in the project which makes giving dates difficult. Mostly people work on what they need ("scratching your own itch"). We have a document on the Wiki that lists things people focus on: http://wiki.apache.org/xmlgraphics-fop/RoadMap (but not everyone works with that and many small thing get done unanounced (like bugfixes)) Anyway, one item that is definitely on the list is the implementation of the AFP format based on the new intermediate format [1] I'm currently working on. On the wish list is certainly better color support. [1] http://wiki.apache.org/xmlgraphics-fop/AreaTreeIntermediateXml/NewDesign > 3) Get the list of consultant/developers involved on AFP renderer. Pete Townsend and Joe Schmetzer originally developed an AFP renderer for FOP (http://afp-renderer.sourceforge.net/). That was donated to FOP and integrated into FOP by Manuel Mall. After that Adrian Cumiskey took over (adding GOCA support and improvements on resource groups and image handling), as Andreas already mentioned. I've just been keeping an eye on the AFP code but to this day I have no real-life experience with this format (so I'm probably the opposite of you: I know the code but I'm no AFP expert). ;-) > Any help would be very appreciated. Likewise. We're always glad to have additional people dropping in to help out in any way possible (documentation, feedback, suggestions, code etc.). <snip/> Good luck, Jeremias Maerki --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: fop-users-unsubscr...@xmlgraphics.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: fop-users-h...@xmlgraphics.apache.org
