fop/STATUS

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STATUS 


**** CONTENT **** 

- committers
- history
- things worked on
- things to do 
- bugs 

**** COMMITTERS **** 

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

Kelly Campbell
Steven Coffman 
Stanislav Gorkhover
Fotis Jannidis 
Karen Lease
Keiron Liddle
Jordan Naftolin
Eric Schaeffer 
Jon Smirl 

**** HISTORY **** 


Done since 0.15 release

- added: support for multi-column and column spanning (column-count, column-gap, span)[Arved Sandstrom]
- added: compression for pdf files, changed output format to OutputStream [Kelly Campbell]
- added: improved handling of compound properties [Karen Lease]
- added: fo:character and property 'character' [Fotis Jannidis]
         (limitation: not included into hyphenation, no Common Margin and Padding support)
- added vertical alignment for table cell contents [Keiron Liddle]
- added: Finnish hyphenation patterns [Jarno Elovirta]
- added: hyphenation package (Carlos Villegas), integration into Fop [Fotis Jannidis]
- added: interim configuration package [Fotis Jannidis]
- added: FopImage class that uses JAI [Eric Schaeffer] and JAI compile target [Kelly Campbell]
- added: support for rule-style [Fotis Jannidis]
- updated tables to handle headers, footers, keep-with, colspan 
          is partly done [Keiron Liddle]
- updated: svg stuff for the latest java bindings [Keiron Liddle]
- fixed: enhanced error messages for page layout (region names, master) [Norm Walsh]
- fixed: infinite looping bug when TableCell or TableRow is larger than a page [Hani Elabed]
- fixed: corrected the size of the "-" char [Keiron Liddle]
- fixed: check for unnecessary whitespace at end of line [Marcus Crafter]
- fixed: moves table completely to next page if first row doesn't fit into last page [Keiron Liddle]
- fixed: problem where id's where being setup twice for
         table row going over the page  [Kelly Campbell]
- fixed colspanning so that the cell state keeps track of the
        width so far properly [Keiron Liddle]
- fix to allow JDK 1.1 users to compile and use FOP [Mikko Honkala] 
- fix: removing duplicate character mappings [Dharamveer Salecha]
- fix: NullPointerException in FopImageFactory [Kelly Campbell] 
- fixed: space after's where not being removed if table row was being removed [Keiron Liddle]
- fixed problem with keep-with not storing the correct rows [Keiron Liddle]
- fixed: extra space after was left behind for rows going over a page [Keiron Liddle]

Done since 0.14 release
- added region-name support, refactoring of region, PageSequence, 
        PageMasterReference, flow/static [Kelly Campbell, Arved Sandstrom]
- added CommandLine/Driver -d option to output stack traces [Kelly Campbell, Arved Sandstrom]
- added: a new package for image support and analysis [Pankaj Narula]
- added better svg support (linear gradients, radial gradients, css style selectors, 
        css colour names, patterns, path curves (except arcs), text tspan and tref, text whitespace 
        handling, text outline and fill, switch, images (including external svg images)
        references in external svg documents, svg elements (below top element), symbol element) [Keiron Liddle]
- added large test suite for svg [Keiron Liddle]
- added support for property textdecoration (only value 'underline') [Christian Geisert]
- added support for type 1 fonts [Jeremias Maerki,Alan Fagot]
- added support for compile target jdk 1.1 only [Art Welch]
- added support for  partial borders in block, block-container, 
                     table-row, table-column and table-cell [Corinna Hischke]
- redesign of properties handling, support for computed, compound and shorthand properties, 
                     supporting docs [Karen Lease]
- redesign of font handling for AWTRenderer [Dorothea Wiarda]
- added: support for leader-alignment, leader-pattern-width, leader-pattern (dots,space) [Fotis Jannidis]
- fixed: unnecessary dependence on jdk 1.2 features [Christian Geisert]
- fixed: unicode problem in UserMessage [Ross Golder]
- fixed: broken buildFOTree [Marcus Holmberg]
- fixed: problems with borders and padding in tables [Corinna Hischke]
- fixed: XMLRenderer, unbalanced " in the produced output [Dorothea Wiarda]
- fixed: renamed: inline-sequence -> inline, simple-link -> basic-link, 
                  white-space-treatment -> white-space-collapse [Fotis Jannidis]
- fixed: images were rendered only half size (Mikko Honkala)
- fixed: pdf file in XalanCommandFile explicitly closed [Dharamveer Salecha] 
- fixed: lists containing list do not keep their indentation correctly 
         over a page boundary [Dorothea Wiarda]

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 supports - 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) 


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

columns, footnotes, floats [Arved Sandstrom, Kelly Campbell]
image support [Eric Schaeffer, Pankaj Narula, Andreas Rueckert] 
SVG support [Keiron Liddle][Torsten Friebe] 
smooth shading in PDF [Steven Coffman] 
properties [Karen Lease]
tables [Karen Lease, Marcus Crafter] 
hyphenation,line break [Carlos Villegas] 
docs [Fotis Jannidis] 


**** THINGS TO DO **** 

Support XSL Candidate Release 

first target is basic conformance 

1.One category of tasks will be to implement missing formatting objects. 

basic
  fo:declarations
  fo:multi-case 
  fo:table-and-caption 
  fo:table-header 
  fo:wrapper 

extended
  fo:bidi-override 
  fo:color-profile
  fo:float 
  fo:footnote 
  fo:footnote-body
  fo:initial-property-set
  fo:inline-container
  fo:marker
  fo:multi-properties
  fo:multi-property-set
  fo:multi-switch
  fo:multi-toggle
  fo:region-end
  fo:region-start
  fo:retrieve-marker
  fo:table-caption 
  fo:table-footer
  fo:title


2. A 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. 
  This are the properties which must be implemented to reach basic conformance

  a) CHANGED 
   space-after.optimum (Incomplete) 
   space-before.optimum (Incomplete) 
   keep-with-next (Changed)

  b) NEW 
   alignment-adjust                                       
   alignment-baseline
   baseline-shift                                         
   block-progression-dimension                            
   border-after-precedence
   border-before-precedence
   border-end-precedence
   border-start-precedence
   clip                                                   
   content-type                                           
   direction                                              
   display-align                                          
   dominant-baseline                                      
   font-variant                                           
   format                                                 
   grouping-separator                                     
   grouping-size                                          
   inline-progression-dimension                           
   keep-with-next                                     
   keep-with-previous                                     
   letter-value                                           
   line-stacking-strategy                                 
   number-columns-repeated       
   number-columns-spanned        
   number-rows-spanned           
   orphans                       
   overflow                      
   reference-orientation         
   relative-align                
   role                          
   source-document               
   space-after (full)
   space-before (full)
   space-end                     
   space-start                   
   visibility                    
   widows                        
   writing-mode                  
   z-index                       

3. A third category of tasks is the ongoing effort to promote maintainability, 
   write  more and better documentation, and to refine the build process. 
  a) add examples. In examples/fo there should be at least one file for each 
     supported flow object showing the use of all properties applying to it.


**** Bugs ****

- colour not continued onto subsequent pages if coloured block goes over page 
- keep-next doesn't work and doubles the text lines which should be moved to the next page
- border width in fo:table is added to the start position of the next block or
  table (see page 6 in examples/fo/table.fo for a test case)
- if a block, which is positioned with space-before, doesn't fit on the current page, 
  it gets lost. (see space-before.fo in bugtests/fo for a test case)


SVG 
- SVG linearGradients don't appear the same as in other SVG Viewers

AWT Previewer: 
- more comments/english comments