fop/STATUS

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STATUS 

**** COMMITTERS **** 

Arved Sandstrom (release coordinator) 
James Tauber (started it all and wrote most of the code) 

Steven Coffman 
Fotis Jannidis 
Keiron Liddle
Jordan Naftolin
Eric Schaeffer 
Jon Smirl 

**** THINGS WORKED ON ***** 

rewrite of the org.apache.fop.layout in a new package (implements xsl 2000) [James Tauber] 
image support [Eric Schaeffer, Pankaj Narula, Andreas Rueckert] 
SVG support [Keiron Liddle][Torsten Friebe] 
more borders, padding and absolute positioning [Jon Smirl] 
smooth shading in PDF [Steven Coffman] 
tables: fo: table-header, table-and-caption, 
        properties: 
             column-number, 
             number-columns-repeated 
             number-columns-spanned 
             number-rows-spanned 
         general properties wrt tables 
            [Karen Lease] 
docs [Fotis Jannidis] 

**** THINGS TO DO **** 

Support XSL Working Draft 27 March 2000 

1.One category of tasks will be to implement missing formatting objects. 
  There are 6  such objects: 

  fo:character 
  fo:leader 
  fo:table-and-caption 
  fo:table-header 
  fo:multi-case 
  fo:wrapper 

2.A second category of tasks will be to update existing objects. 
  This typically entails renaming modifications. There are at least 3 of these: 

  fo:page-sequence-master 
  fo:single-page-master-reference 
  fo:repeatable-page-master-reference 

3.A third category of tasks is to retire obsolescent objects. The primary issue 
  here seems to be the migration of FOP from officially supporting 
  DisplayGraphic and InlineGraphic FO's to officially supporting at least an 
  ExternalGraphic FO, and ideally also the InstreamForeignObject FO, the latter 
  aimed at SVG support. 

4.A fourth, and not insignificant, category of tasks is to decide upon and 
  implement all reasonable properties required by the specification. This 
  also means that at this point, until further review, no FO can be considered 
  to be compliant. 

  a) CHANGED 
   21.space-after.optimum (Incomplete) 
   22.space-before.optimum (Incomplete) 
   25.white-space-treatment (Dropped/Changed) 

  b) NEW 
    1.alignment-adjust                                       26.min-width 
    2.baseline-identifier                                    27.number-columns-repeated 
    3.baseline-shift                                         28.number-columns-spanned 
    4.block-progression-dimension                            29.number-rows-spanned 
    5.character                                              30.orphans 
    6.clip                                                   31.overflow 
    7.column-number                                          32.page-break-after 
    8.content-type                                           33.page-break-before 
    9.direction                                              34.precedence 
   10.display-align                                          35.ref-id 
   11.dominant-baseline                                      36.reference-orientation 
   12.font-variant                                           37.region-name 
   13.format                                                 38.relative-align 
   14.grouping-separator                                     39.role 
   15.grouping-size                                          40.rule-style 
   16.inline-progression-dimension                           41.source-document 
   17.keep-with-previous                                     42.space-after 
   18.leader-length                                          43.space-before 
   19.leader-pattern                                         44.space-end 
   20.letter-value                                           45.space-start 
   21.line-stacking-strategy                                 
   22.master-name                                            47.visibility 
   23.max-height                                             48.widows 
   24.max-width                                              49.writing-mode 
   25.min-height                                             50.z-index 

5.A fifth category of tasks is the ongoing effort to promote maintainability, 
write 
  more and better documentation, and to refine the build process. 
  a) Don't use 'make' any longer and make sure that build.sh and build.bat work 
  b) Add the property files to the source code (how is the vote on this?) 
  c) update the examples to the new spec 
  d) add examples so that all the FOs supported are used in some example 

**** Bugs ****

- SVG linearGradients don't appear the same as in other SVG Viewers
- colour not continued onto subsequent pages if coloured block goes over page 
- no SVG support in AWTCommandLine 
- keep-next doesn't work and doubles the text lines which should be moved to the next page
- pdf files created with Fop don't print correctly on postscript printers
- lists containing list do not keep their indentation correctly over a page boundary

with AWT Previewer: 

- currently the layout process uses PDF fonts. This gives sometimes 
  trouble with java.awt.Font 
- we need some progress messages even if the process itself is fast 
- GIF format is supported by the viewer, but disabled in FOP. BMP is 
  not done, because there are no standard libraries. 
- more comments/english comments 
- first preview is painted twice (flashing screen) 
- should "preview" be an option when calling FOP instead of having 
  it's own main method? 

**** HISTORY **** 

Done since 0.13 release
- pagination updated to 03/27/2000 XSL WD [Arved Sandstrom]
- added support for fo page-number-citation [Mike Crowe, Jordan Naftolin]
- added support for 06/29/2000 SVG WD + W3C Java DOM bindings [Keiron Liddle]
- added image support using Jimi [Eric Schaeffer]
- added support for external and internal simple-links [Jordan Naftolin]
- added support for the fonts Symbol and ZapfDingbats [Fotis Jannidis]
- added a MessageHandler  [Fotis Jannidis]
- fixed table overflow bug [Jordan Naftolin]
- finally fixed postscript printing of generated PDF [Domagoj Cosic]
- removed XTCommandLine from build.xml 
- removed PDFOutputHandler from build.xml 
- added XalanCommandLine  [Fotis Jannidis]
- added: fo:instream-foreign-object [Keiron Liddle]
- added: goto button in AWT viewer [Stanislav Gorkhover]
- updated: AWT viewer now works again and support - with some restrictions - the new SVG support [Stanislav Gorkhover]

Done since 0.12.1 release 
- using Ant to build Fop instead of make [Giacomo Pati] 
- borders, padding and absolute positioning [Jon Smirl] 

0.12.1 release 
to make the bug fix on XTCommandLine available to non developers 
basic support for padding-{top,left,bottom,right} on blocks. 
implemented simple-link (don't think it works, though) 
XTCommandLine now works again 
background color works on list-block 
list-blocks can now be in table-cell 

Done for 0.12.0 release: 

Make sure Makefiles work 
Switch to using Status object as return from layout() 
Incorporate Eric Schaeffer's fix to tables in static-content 
Incorporate Kelly Campell's fixes to GifJpegImage 
Incorporate Eric Schaeffer's background colour implementation 
  (actually used different approach with background colour as trait)