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<status>

  <developers>
  <!-- in strict alphabetical order -->
  <person name="Bertrand Delacretaz" email="bdelacretaz@apache.org" id="BD"/>
  <person name="Christian Geisert" email="chrisg@apache.org" id="CG"/>
  <person name="Karen Lease" email="klease@apache.org" id="KL"/>
  <person name="Keiron Liddle" email="keiron@apache.org" id="KLL"/>
  <person name="Jeremias Maerki" email="jeremias@apache.org" id="JM"/>
  <person name="Joerg Pietschmann" email="pietsch@apache.org" id="JP"/>
  <person name="Arved Sandstrom" email="arved@apache.org" id="AS"/>
  <person name="Peter B. West" email="pbwest@apache.org" id="PBW"/>

<!--
inactive??
  <person name="Kelly Campbell" email="kellyc@apache.org" id="KC"/>
  <person name="Steven Coffman" email="gears@apache.org" id="SC"/>
  <person name="Tore Engvig" email="tore@apache.org" id=""/>
  <person name="Stanislav Gorkhover" email="stanislav@apache.org" id=""/>
  <person name="Fotis Jannidis" email="fotis@apache.org" id=""/>
  <person name="Jordan Naftolin" email="jordan@apache.org" id=""/>
  <person name="Eric Schaeffer" email="eschaeffer@apache.org" id=""/>
  <person name="Art Welch" email="artw@apache.org" id=""/>
-->
    <person name="Volunteer needed"   email="fop-dev@xml.apache.org" id="open"/>
  </developers>

  <todo>
   <actions priority="high">
    <action context="code" dev="KL">
      get simple pagination working
    </action>
    <action context="code" dev="open">
      sort out page sequence details
    </action>
    <action context="code" dev="open">
      complete resolving id areas
    </action>
    <action context="code" dev="open">
      add the pdf side part of bookmark extension
    </action>

    <action context="code" dev="open">
      Add static areas to page 
      The static areas will need to be handled in a similar way to the flow
      except the bpd is unlimited and it will need to reset and repeat for
      each page. 
    </action>
    <action context="code" dev="open">
      Add id areas to page when area added.
      When the layout managers add an area to the page it can also add the id
      information. 
    </action>
    <action context="code" dev="open">
      Resolve id references on other pages, extensions.
      When an id is added to a page this will allow id references to be
      resolved.
    </action>
    <action context="code" dev="open">
      Add markers to page when areas added.
      When an area is added that is created by an FO that contains markers
      then the markers can also be added. There are four types of positions
      for markers.
    </action>
    <action context="code" dev="open">
      Retrieve markers from page.
      When doing the static areas the markers wil need to be available for
      retrieving. The marker can then be layed out as normal.
    </action>
    <action context="code" dev="open">
      implement the caching mechanism to store pages
      when a page contains a forward reference that has not been
      resolved then we need to be able to save the page contents to
      disk to save memory
    </action>
    <action context="code" dev="open">
      Implement table layout.
      The table layout will use the same technique as the block layout. It
      will locate suitable breaks between rows or inside rows until table
      finished or end of bpd reached. 
    </action>
    <action context="code" dev="open">
      Implement list layout.
      The list layout like the table layout will be looking for suitable
      breaks from the child objects. The it will add the appropriate areas to
      the area tree. 
    </action>
    <action context="code" dev="open">
      Get bookmark extension working.
      Make sure the extension id references are resolved. Once the data is
      fully resolved then implement a way for the pdf renderer to add the
      bookmarks. See branch for code how to add bookmarks. 
    </action>

   </actions>

   <actions priority="medium">
    <action context="design" dev="open">
     Design FOP API interfaces.
    </action>
    <action context="design" dev="open">
     Integrate with Jakarta Avalon: logging, configuration, URI resolver,
     component management, image caching etc.
    </action>
   </actions>

   <actions priority="low">
    <action context="design" dev="open">
      Investigate using form XObject for repeated areas
      such as static and table header/footer only when the
      area does not change.
    </action>
    <action context="code" dev="open">
      Investigate using form XObject for svg images
      this can make the svg cacheable in the pdf doc
    </action>
   </actions>

  </todo>

  <changes>
   <release version="?" date="2002">
    <action dev="KLL" type="update" context="code">
      Calculate line height.
      The line height is calculated while finding breaks.
      Improved alignment to use the breaks and context.
    </action>
    <action dev="KLL" type="update" context="code">
      Updated batik with change to TextPainter interface and UserAgent.
      Improved PDFTextPainter to handle more types of text.
    </action>
    <action dev="JM" type="update" context="code"
            due-to="Stephen Wolke" due-to-email="smwolke@geistig.com">
      Added a RunLengthEncode filter for the PostScript renderer.
    </action>
    <action dev="JM" type="update" context="code">
      Replaced the PostScript filters with the refactored ones from the maintenance 
      branch.
    </action>
    <action dev="JM" type="update" context="code">
      First batch of changes in preparation for adoption of Avalon patterns. 
      Only changes on logging for now. Mostly usage of LogEnabled contract interface.
    </action>
    <action dev="JM" type="update" context="build">
      Improve build process for more flexibility when external jars change.
      Changed to use -projecthelp option from Ant 1.5 instead of "usage" target.
    </action>
    <action dev="JM" type="update" context="build">
      Updated Avalon Framework JAR (with Log4J support, Bug 11274)
    </action>
    <action dev="KLL" type="update" context="docs"
            due-to="Victor Mote" due-to-email="vic@outfitr.com">
      Copies across overview for javadocs build.
      chmod antRun in build.sh.
    </action>
    <action dev="KLL" type="update" context="code"
            due-to="Kevin O'Neill" due-to-email="kevin@rocketred.com.au">
      Minor patch for the TTFReader to remove an unreachable statement
      compiler warning
    </action>
    <action dev="KLL" type="update" context="code"
            due-to="Torsten Erler" due-to-email="erlto@net-linx.de">
      workaround for eps files that have invalid float bounding box values
      float values are rounded off according to the spec the
      %%HiResBoundingBox should be used instead for floating position
      values
    </action>
    <action dev="JP" type="update" context="code">
      Simplified ASCII85Filter computation, thereby hopefully
      working around JVM bugs
    </action>
    <action dev="KLL" type="add" context="docs"
            due-to="Cyril Rognon" due-to-email="crognon@objectiva.fr">
      added understanding layout manager document
    </action>
    <action dev="KLL" type="update" context="docs"
            due-to="Peter Kullmann" due-to-email="p.kullmann@arenae.ch">
      fixed master-name and a test setup problem
    </action>
    <action dev="KLL" type="update" context="code">
      moved embed font info into the render.pdf package
      reduced dependancy on Configuration
    </action>
    <action dev="KLL" type="update" context="code"
            due-to="Kevin O'Neill" due-to-email="kevin@rocketred.com.au">
      separated the specific PDFRender functionality from the CTM class
      and created a small utility class for the renderer to use
    </action>
    <action dev="KLL" type="update" context="code"> 
      FontState only used for calculations,
      stores font name and size on area tree
    </action>
    <action dev="KLL" type="update" context="code"> 
      Improved PDFTextPainter to handle different text better
    </action>
    <action dev="KLL" type="update" context="code"> 
      Applied root element viewBox transform for svg to pdf transcoder
    </action>
    <action dev="KLL" type="update" context="code"> 
      image test for formats, viewport and scaling
    </action>
    <action dev="KLL" type="add" context="code"> 
      added various SVG to PDF tests for trancoder
      and including in fo
    </action>
    <action dev="KLL" type="update" context="code"> 
      Implemented viewport and scaling for images
    </action>
    <action dev="KLL" type="update" context="code"> 
      Implemented viewport and scaling for instream svg
    </action>
    <action dev="KLL" type="update" context="code">
      Removed old area tree
    </action>
    <action dev="KLL" type="update" context="code">
      Optimised gstate usage in pdf files to minimize file size
    </action>
    <action dev="KLL" type="update" context="code">
      Optimised function usage, reuses old functions in pdf files
      to minimize file size
    </action>
    <action dev="KLL" type="add" context="code">
      Added transparancy to pdf
    </action>
    <action dev="KLL" type="update" context="code">
      Outputs images immediately to the stream, also drops
      reference to image data
    </action>
    <action dev="KLL" type="add" context="code">
      Added resource context for pattern resources
    </action>
    <action dev="KLL" type="update" context="build">
      Added pdf transcoder build target
    </action>
    <action dev="KLL" type="update" context="code">
      Made PDF streams externally configured
    </action>
    <action dev="KLL" type="update" context="code">
      Fixed svg linking in pdf, works with viewbox and url
    </action>
    <action dev="KLL" type="add" context="code">
      Start to mif implementation with new structure handlers
    </action>
    <action dev="KLL" type="add" context="code">
      New structure handler for structure type documents, rtf, mif
      and for better layout processing.
    </action>
    <action dev="KLL" type="update" context="code">
      Changed extensions to allow for external xml
    </action>
    <action dev="KLL" type="add" context="code">
      Can have a default element mapping for extensions
    </action>
    <action dev="KLL" type="add" context="code">
      New area tree model
    </action>
    <action dev="KLL" type="add" context="code">
      New renderer model
    </action>
    <action dev="KLL" type="update" context="code">
      Added handlers for xml in renderer
    </action> 
    <action dev="KLL" type="update" context="code">
      svg now in an xml handler, FOP can be used without batik
    </action>
    <action dev="KLL" type="update" context="build">
      Removed old xerces and xalan
    </action>
    <action dev="" type="update" context="code">
      Updated to use Jaxp
    </action>
    <action dev="" type="update" context="code">
        Updated to use new avalon framework logger
    </action>
    <action dev="KLL" type="update" context="code">
      Redid image handling so it can use a cache and synchronizes properly
      only on the current image while loading
    </action>
    <action dev="KLL" type="update" context="code">
      Changed bookmark extension, now requires a wrapping element bookmark
    </action>
    <action dev="KL" type="add" context="code">
      New layout system using layout managers
    </action>
    <action dev="KL" type="add" context="code">
      Implemented handlers for whitespace handling that collapse whitespace
      better in various places
    </action>
    <action dev="KLL" type="update" context="code">
     Changed area tree xml format to match the area tree hierarchy
    </action>

   </release>
  </changes>

</status>