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authorJeremias Maerki <jeremias@apache.org>2005-12-23 23:34:48 +0000
committerJeremias Maerki <jeremias@apache.org>2005-12-23 23:34:48 +0000
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Merge from Branch fop-0_91:
Documentation updates in preparation of the 0.91 beta release. git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/xmlgraphics/fop/trunk@358885 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68
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@@ -4,23 +4,6 @@ $Id$
APACHE FOP - README
==============================================================================
-+----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
-| |
-| **** IMPORTANT! **** |
-| |
-| This release is the first after a big redesign effort on the whole FOP |
-| codebase. This release is to be considered ALPHA quality and it is |
-| intended as a preview release encouraging people to take a look at the new |
-| version and to provide feedback to the developers. Please not only report |
-| to us problems you might experience but also tell us if it works for you. |
-| If you find out that this version works fine for you, you're welcome to |
-| use it but please test it thoroughly as we don't consider this release |
-| ready for every production environment. Please read the following page for |
-| more detailed information: |
-| http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/0.90/upgrading.html |
-| |
-+----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
-
Contents of this file:
- What is FOP?
- Where to get help?
@@ -76,26 +59,32 @@ Simply by typing "fop" on the command-line. Without any parameters you
will receive a screen with instruction on how to call FOP from the
command-line.
-For more details, see: http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/0.90/running.html
+For more details, see: http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/latest/running.html
==============================================================================
RELEASE NOTES
==============================================================================
-Version 0.90alpha1
+Version 0.91 beta
---------------------
We don't list all the changes since the 0.20.5 release, since this release
represents the first after a complete redesign of the FOP codebase. This
-is basically a new software.
+is basically a new software. But the changes since 0.90 alpha 1 can be looked
+up under http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/changes.html.
Upgrading from 0.20.5:
-Please read http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/0.90/upgrading.html
+Please read http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/latest/upgrading.html
+
+The Apache FOP team asks you for your continued feedback on the new software.
+We're also interested in success stories with the new release. So if the
+latest version works fine for you, please tell us! And if it doesn't, you
+may tell us as well, of course. ;-)
Caveats:
- - This release is a preview release and not intended for use in a
- production environment. Use at your own risk!
+ - This release is a beta release. If you intend to use this software
+ in a production environment, please perform careful testing.
- The API is not to be considered stable, yet. Please be prepared
for the API to be changed in a backwards-incompatible way.
- You may experience different behaviour compared to version 0.20.5.
@@ -148,3 +137,5 @@ Known issues:
and attempting to create columns implicitly from the first
table row is not implemented, yet (Bugzilla #35656).
- Leaders with the "rule" pattern don't work for PostScript output.
+ - break-after may in some cases cause subsequent content to be swallowed.
+ Please use break-before, if possible.