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 
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, message handler [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 (7) such objects: 

  fo:character (?) 
  fo:external-graphic 
  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 
   11.href (Dropped/Changed) 
   14.page-master-even (Dropped/Changed) 
   15.page-master-first (Dropped/Changed) 
   16.page-master-name (Dropped/Changed) 
   17.page-master-odd (Dropped/Changed) 
   18.page-master-repeating (Dropped/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 46.src 
   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 ****

- 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
- id references are marked as illegally doubled, if they are first layouted at the bottom of a page
  and then moved to the next page

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 
- added support for fo page-number-citation [Mike Crowe, Jordan Naftolin]
- 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]


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)