Re: FOP upgrade (was Re: Problem with New FoFormRenderer)

Posted by cjhowe on Aug 10, 2006; 8:03pm
URL: http://ofbiz.116.s1.nabble.com/Problem-with-New-FoFormRenderer-tp170568p170573.html

+1
0.20.5 has particular problems ignoring some styles.
and i don't think wee have many fo.ftl's that wouldn't
be conforming to the standard, so i don't think it
would break any current ones. thanks Christian!

--- Christian Geisert <[hidden email]>
wrote:

> Jacopo Cappellato schrieb:
> > Chris,
> >
> > I think we are using the latest stable release:
> 0.20.5
>
> Umm, yeah 0.20.5 is labled as stable and 0.92 just
> beta
> and it will take some month until Apache FOP 1.0 is
> released but in fact I can't think of any reason to
> stick with the old 0.20.5.
>
> Some of the new features:
> -PNGs will work without extra jars
> -page-position="last" is implemented
> -RTF-Renderer is included
> -new AFP-Renderer
> -keep-* properties are working on blocks
> -PostScript-Extensions (for example tray selection)
> -AutoTableLayout will be coming soon (GSoC project)
> and a lot more ..
>
> There could be some minor problems with some
> stylesheets .. erm ..
> templates .. because 0.92 is more strict (conformant
> to the spec) than
> 0.20.5.
>
> So if want a FOP upgrade (and I hope you do ;-) I'm
> happy to make all
> the necessary changes (including comparing all pdf
> reports) and send a
> patch.
> --
> Christian
>