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- <p>The goal of his <strong>Quick Start Guide</strong> is to help novice users get Apache FOP up and running quickly. Typically, you'll need to:</p>
- <ol>
- <li><a href="download.html">Download FOP</a></li>
- <li><a href="0.95/compiling.html">Build FOP</a></li>
- <li><a href="0.95/configuration.html">Configure FOP</a></li>
- <li><a href="0.95/running.html">Run FOP</a></li>
- </ol>
- <p>Here are some links to help you find out what FOP can do, as well as how and where to get help:</p>
- <ul>
- <li><a href="0.95/embedding.html">Embed FOP</a></li>
- <li><a href="0.95/servlets.html">Using FOP in Servlets</a></li>
- <li><a href="0.95/anttask.html">Create an FOP 'Ant' Task</a></li>
- <li><a href="compliance.html" title="FOP Compliance">Compliance</a></li>
- <li><a href="gethelp.html">Getting Help</a></li>
- <li><a href="faq.html">FAQs</a></li>
- <li><a href="maillist.html">Mailing Lists</a></li>
- </ul>
- <p>The following links will help you understand what FOP supports out of the box, and how to extend FOP using your own Fonts and Hyphenation files, as well as how to extend FOP with Extensions.</p>
- <ul>
- <li><a href="0.95/output.html">FOP's Output Targets</a></li>
- <li><a href="0.95/intermediate.html">FOP's Intermediate Format</a></li>
- <li><a href="0.95/pdfencryption.html">FOP's PDF Encryption Support</a></li>
- <li><a href="0.95/pdfa.html">FOP's PDF/A Support</a></li>
- <li><a href="0.95/pdfx.html">FOP's PDF/X Support</a></li>
- <li><a href="0.95/graphics.html">FOP's Graphics Support</a></li>
- <li><a href="0.95/fonts.html">FOP's Fonts Support</a></li>
- <li><a href="0.95/hyphenation.html">FOP's Hyphenation Support</a></li>
- <li><a href="0.95/extensions.html">FOP's Extensions Support</a></li>
- </ul>
+ <section id="essentials">
+ <title>FOP Essentials</title>
+ <p>The goal of this <strong>Quick Start Guide</strong> is to help novice users get Apache FOP up and running quickly. Typically, you'll need to:</p>
+ <ol>
+ <li><link href="download.html">Download FOP</link></li>
+ <li><link href="0.95/compiling.html">Build FOP</link> (you can skip this step if you download the binary distribution!)</li>
+ <li><link href="0.95/configuration.html">Configure FOP</link></li>
+ <li><link href="0.95/running.html">Run FOP</link></li>
+ </ol>
+ <p>Here are some links to help you find out what FOP can do, as well as how and where to get help:</p>
+ <ul>
+ <li><link href="0.95/embedding.html">Calling FOP from a Java Application</link></li>
+ <li><link href="0.95/servlets.html">Using FOP in Servlets</link></li>
+ <li><link href="0.95/anttask.html">Using FOP in an 'Ant' Build Script</link></li>
+ <li><link href="compliance.html" title="FOP Compliance">XSL-FO Compliance</link> (what FOP supports and what it doesn't)</li>
+ <li><link href="faq.html">FAQs</link></li>
+ <li><link href="gethelp.html">Getting Help</link></li>
+ <li><link href="maillist.html">Mailing Lists</link></li>
+ </ul>
+ <p>
+ Once you've familiarized yourself with the basics, you can get more detailed information,
+ in the detailed FOP <link href="0.95/index.html">product documentation</link>.
+ </p>
+ </section>
+
+ <section id="hello-world">
+ <title>Hello World with FOP</title>
+ <p>
+ This section walks you through a "Hello World!" page with Apache FOP. We're assuming you
+ download the binary distribution and that you have a Java Runtime Environment (version 1.4
+ or later) installed.
+ </p>
+ <ol>
+ <li>
+ Unpack the downloaded binary distribution to a directory of your choice (for example,
+ <code>C:\FOP</code> if you're on Windows). Let's call that
+ directory <fop-home>.
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ Get a command prompt in the <fop-home> directory and write:<br/>
+ Windows: <code>fop -fo examples/fo/basic/readme.fo -awt</code><br/>
+ Unix: <code>./fop.sh -fo examples/fo/basic/readme.fo -awt</code><br/>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ If all went well, this should open a window showing you a "readme"-style document.
+ This is just to verify that FOP runs correctly.
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ Now, take your favorite XML editor and create a small XML file like the following. Replace
+ "Frank" with your own first name to make it a bit more personal and save it as
+ <code>name.xml</code>:<br/>
+ <source><![CDATA[<name>Frank</name>]]></source>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ To produce a PDF file from this XML file, we need an XSLT stylesheet that converts the
+ XML to XSL-FO. This is the first step in the processing chain. The second step will be
+ done by FOP when it reads the generated XSL-FO document and formats it to a PDF document.
+ You can copy the following minimal XSLT stylesheet, which takes your first name and
+ produces a "Hello World!"-style document (save it as <code>name2fo.xsl</code>):<br/>
+ <source><![CDATA[<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
+<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
+ xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
+ xmlns:fo="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format">
+ <xsl:output method="xml" indent="yes"/>
+ <xsl:template match="/">
+ <fo:root>
+ <fo:layout-master-set>
+ <fo:simple-page-master master-name="A4-portrait"
+ page-height="29.7cm" page-width="21.0cm" margin="2cm">
+ <fo:region-body/>
+ </fo:simple-page-master>
+ </fo:layout-master-set>
+ <fo:page-sequence master-reference="A4-portrait">
+ <fo:flow flow-name="xsl-region-body">
+ <fo:block>
+ Hello, <xsl:value-of select="name"/>!
+ </fo:block>
+ </fo:flow>
+ </fo:page-sequence>
+ </fo:root>
+ </xsl:template>
+</xsl:stylesheet>]]></source>
+
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ Finally, let's put the previous two steps together: Go back to the command prompt and
+ enter the following command:<br/>
+ Windows: <code>fop -xml name.xml -xsl name2fo.xsl -pdf name.pdf</code><br/>
+ Unix: <code>./fop.sh -xml name.xml -xsl name2fo.xsl -pdf name.pdf</code><br/>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ You've produced your first PDF with Apache FOP! Please open <code>name.pdf</code>
+ in your favorite PDF viewer.
+ </li>
+ </ol>
+ </section>
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