RELEASE NOTES
==============================================================================
+Version 0.95beta
+================
+
+This is a pre-version of the third production grade release of the new FOP
+codebase. It contains many bug fixes and new features. See below for details.
+
+Compliance
+----------
+
+This release implements the XSL 1.0 and 1.1 recommendations to a high
+degree of compliance. See the compliance page
+http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/compliance.html for a detailed
+overview.
+
+Known issues
+------------
+
+The known issues of this release are listed at
+http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/0.95/knownissues_overview.html.
+
+Major Changes in Version 0.95
+-----------------------------
+
+* Add new fox:external-document extension element that allows to insert whole
+ documents into a page-sequence (JM)
+* Add support for background on fo:table-column and fo:table-header/footer/body
+ elements (VH)
+* Add support for conditional borders in tables (VH)
+* Add support for scale-down-to-fit and scale-up-to-fit (JM)
+* Fix various bugs and performance problems with external graphics by
+ introducing a new image loading framework (JM)
+
+The long list of changes in this release is available at
+http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/0.95/changes_0.95.html.
+
+The long list of changes in this and earlier releases is available at
+http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/changes.html.
+
+
+
Version 0.94
============
# redirect to versioned documentation
Redirect Temp /fop/stable http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/0.94
-Redirect Temp /fop/current http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/0.94
-Redirect Temp /fop/unstable http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/trunk
+Redirect Temp /fop/current http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/0.95
+Redirect Temp /fop/unstable http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/0.95
Redirect Temp /fop/latest http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/trunk
Redirect Temp /fop/maintenance http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/0.93
Redirect Temp /fop/previous http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/0.93
Not all FO elements can be referenced by their "id", most notably:
table-body, table-header, table-footer and table-row.
</known-issue>
- <known-issue>
- The backgrounds of table-body, table-header, table-footer and
- table-column are not painted, yet.
- </known-issue>
<known-issue>
Column balancing in multi-column documents may not work as expected
(<a href="http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=36356">Bugzilla #36356</a>)
<file>region-body_column-count_bug36356.xml</file>
<description>Column balancing doesn't work as expected.</description>
</testcase>
- <testcase>
- <name>No background-images on table-body</name>
- <file>table-body_background-image.xml</file>
- <description>The backgrounds of table-body, table-header,
- table-footer and table-column are not painted, yet.</description>
- </testcase>
- <testcase>
- <name>Collapsing Border Model NYI</name>
- <file>table_border-collapse_collapse_1.xml</file>
- <description>Border-collapse="collapse" is not yet
- implemented.</description>
- </testcase>
- <testcase>
- <name>Collapsing Border Model NYI</name>
- <file>table_border-collapse_collapse_2.xml</file>
- <description>Border-collapse="collapse" is not yet
- implemented.</description>
- </testcase>
- <testcase>
- <name>Problems with border and padding on tables</name>
- <file>table_border_padding.xml</file>
- <description>The element list seems to not be fully correct, yet, causing
- the layout to look odd.</description>
- </testcase>
- <testcase>
- <name>keep-with-previous doesn't work inside tables</name>
- <file>table-cell_block_keep-with-previous.xml</file>
- <description>Keep-with-previous doesn't work inside tables and
- lists, yet.</description>
- </testcase>
- <testcase>
- <name>Border and padding conditionality is NYI on table-cells</name>
- <file>table-cell_border_padding_conditionality.xml</file>
- <description>Border and padding conditionality are not supported
- on table-cells, yet.</description>
- </testcase>
- <testcase>
- <name>No background-images on table-header</name>
- <file>table-header_background-image.xml</file>
- <description>The backgrounds of table-body, table-header,
- table-footer and table-column are not painted, yet.</description>
- </testcase>
- <testcase>
- <name>keep-with-previous doesn't work on table-rows</name>
- <file>table-row_keep-with-previous.xml</file>
- <description>Keep-with-previous doesn't work inside tables and
- lists, yet.</description>
- </testcase>
<testcase>
<name>table-cell empty area with marker.xml</name>
<file>table-cell_empty_area_with_marker.xml</file>
<tr>
<td>Repository URL</td>
<td>
- <link href="http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/xmlgraphics/fop/tags/fop-0_95rc/">
- <code>http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/xmlgraphics/fop/tags/fop-0_95rc/</code>
+ <link href="http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/xmlgraphics/fop/tags/fop-0_95beta/">
+ <code>http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/xmlgraphics/fop/tags/fop-0_95beta/</code>
</link>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Web view</td>
<td>
- <link href="http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/xmlgraphics/fop/tags/fop-0_95rc/">
- <code>http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/xmlgraphics/fop/tags/fop-0_95rc/</code>
+ <link href="http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/xmlgraphics/fop/tags/fop-0_95beta/">
+ <code>http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/xmlgraphics/fop/tags/fop-0_95beta/</code>
</link>
</td>
</tr>
<p>Apache FOP (Formatting Objects Processor) is a print formatter driven by XSL
formatting objects (XSL-FO) and an output independent formatter. It is a Java
application that reads a formatting object (FO) tree and renders the resulting
- pages to a specified output. <link href="0.94/output.html">Output formats</link>
+ pages to a specified output. <link href="0.95/output.html">Output formats</link>
currently supported include PDF, PS, PCL, AFP, XML (area tree representation),
Print, AWT and PNG, and to a lesser extent, RTF and TXT. The primary output target is PDF.
</p>
<figure width="480" height="260" src="images/document.jpg" alt="Render Diagram" />
<p>
- The latest stable version of FOP (<link href="0.94/">0.94</link>) is the second
- stable release after a large redesign effort and implements a large subset of the
+ A beta release of the latest version of FOP (<link href="0.95/">0.95</link>) is now
+ available. After a short testing period it will become the third
+ stable release after the large redesign effort and will implement a large subset of the
<link href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xsl11/">XSL-FO Version 1.1 W3C
Recommendation</link>.
</p>
</action>
-->
<!--/release-->
- <release version="0.95beta" date="8 March 2008">
+ <release version="0.95beta" date="17 March 2008">
<notes>
<section>
<title>Notes</title>
</p>
<ul>
<li>
- Improvements and bugfixes for tables (keep and break support, border
- conditionality etc.)
+ Many bugfixes in tables, plus some new features (full support for keeps and
+ breaks, border conditionality, background on columns and header/footer/body)
</li>
<li>
Improvements and bugfixes for font handling and font
Please note that with this release, we've dropped support for Java 1.3.
FOP will, from now on, <strong>require at least Java 1.4</strong>.
</p>
+ <p>
+ There have been a few changes in tables that make FOP both more strict and more
+ compliant to the Recommendation:
+ <ul>
+ <li>XSL-FO 1.1 explicitly states that a row-spanning fo:table-cell element is not
+ allowed to span further than its enclosing fo:table-header/footer/body element
+ (see bottom of <link href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xsl11/#fo_table">section
+ 6.7.3</link>). From now on FOP will give a validation error if a document
+ contains such an erroneous cell.
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>If an fo:table element contains explicit fo:table-column children, then those
+ elements set the total number of columns in the table. This means that a
+ validation error will now occur if a row contains more cells than available
+ columns. This change allows to improve performance, since the rendering of the
+ table may start as soon as the table-column elements have been parsed.</p>
+ <p>If more flexibility is needed, then the fo:table-column elements may be just
+ omitted. The final number of columns will then be set by the row that has the
+ most cells.</p>
+ </li>
+ </ul>
+ </p>
<p>
The image libraries Jimi and JAI are no longer needed (and used). Instead we rely
completely on the Image I/O API that has been introduced with Java 1.4. If you still
projects / xmlgraphics-fop.git / commitdiff