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- <section>
- <title tab-width="60">Project History</title>
- <p>
- The initial code for the Formatting Objects Processor (FOP) was contributed to the
- Apache Software Foundation by James Tauber in 1999.
- </p>
- <p>
- The project evolved with the W3C specification and was quickly adopted by many. In July of 2003,
- the most famous version of FOP, 0.20.5, was released. It is now used to produce documents all
- over the globe.
- </p>
- <p>
- Even before release 0.20.5 a redesign effort commenced to address short-comings
- that prevented important features from being implemented using the current design.
- </p>
- <p>
- In October 2004, Batik and FOP joined forces and together formed the XML Graphics project.
- This change was made to scale down the old Apache XML project, to improve
- project oversight, and to allow for better collaboration because Batik and
- FOP share many similarities.
- </p>
- <p>
- In 2005, the redesign finally took a leap forward, which resulted in the first release from
- the new codebase (FOP 0.90alpha). The project team has published a number of releases
- since then. FOP made big steps forward.
- </p>
- <p>
- The next version, to be released in March 2008, will be 0.95. Although FOP still carries
- pre 1.0 version numbers it is production-ready. Some features are still missing before
- version 1.0 can be released.
- </p>
- </section>
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