Something new on the FOP front as well (we're using FOP for PDF export): -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [ANN] Apache FOP 1.1rc1 Released Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2012 19:29:25 -0600 The Apache XML Graphics team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Apache FOP Version 1.1rc1 [1], the first candidate for an upcoming stable 1.1 release. Apache FOP (Formatting Objects Processor) [2] is an output independent print formatter driven by XSL Formatting Objects (XSL-FO) [3]. FOP is a Java application that reads a formatting object tree and renders the resulting pages to a specified output format, of which a variety of formats are supported. Apache FOP is published under the Apache License v2.0. This candidate release will be available for testing for at least one month, after which a stable release is occur. Feedback is welcome, and we would like to encourage as many people as possible to try it out and report bugs and issues on the fop-users [4] or fop-dev [5] mailing lists (as appropriate). This release fixes a number of bugs and provides important performance improvements. In addition the following significant functional enhancements are provided: - Adds support for complex scripts (e.g. Arabic, Indic, etc), aka the "complex text path". - Adds possibility to embed TrueType fonts in the PostScript output. - Adds possibility to reduce the file size of accessible PDF outputs by using Object Streams (a PDF 1.5 feature). - Adds support for 128bit PDF encryption. For release notes see [6]. Source and binary distributions can be downloaded from an ASF Mirror at [7]. Further download information is available at [8]. [1] http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/1.1rc1/index.html [2] http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop [3] http://www.w3.org/TR/xsl11/ [4] http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/mail.html#fop-users [5] http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/mail.html#fop-dev [6] http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/1.1rc1/releaseNotes_1.1rc1.html [7] http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/xmlgraphics/fop [8] http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/download.html On behalf of the XML Graphics team, Glenn Adams