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FOP: Other Resources

Resources useful for developing and using FOP

Specifications

XSL-FO

XSLT

XML

Java

PDF

Unicode

Other

Books, Tutorials, Articles

XSL-FO

XSLT

XML

  • [online book] The XML Bible, by Elliotte Rusty Harold. See hardcopy version below.
  • [book] The XML Bible, by Elliotte Rusty Harold, John Wiley & Sons, ISBN 0-764-54760-7. See online version above.
  • [online resource] A great number of additional XML-related books and articles can be found at the O'Reilly XML Site.

Java

  • [online resource] A great number of Java-related books and articles can be found at the O'Reilly Java Site.

PDF

  • [online resource] Links to the various PDF file format specifications and numerous other documents can be found at Adobe Solutions Network, Acrobat Resources, Acrobat 5.0 SDK Documentation.
  • [online resource] A list of PDF technical resources can be found at Adobe Solutions Network, Acrobat Resources, Acrobat/PDF Technical Notes
  • [online resource] A list of Acrobat and PDF developer resources can be found at Adobe Solutions Network, Acrobat Resources, Resources for Developers.

PostScript

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Apache FOP Mailing List

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Related/Useful Products

FOP add-ons

PDF post-processors

XSL-FO editors

Other products

  • [software] FOray a renderer for converting XML files to PDF via XSL Formatting Object elements (FOP fork)
  • [software] Folio a renderer for XML files containing Formatting Object elements (aka FOP Alt.Design)
  • [commercial software developer] Antenna House - XSL Formatter, WordMLToFo, XML Editor...
  • [commercial software developer] RenderX XEP, EnMasse, Docbench...
  • [software] html2fo is a converter from HTML to XSL-FO (GPL).
  • [software] wh2fo is a converter from Word HTML to XSL-FO (MPL).
  • [software] RTF2FO is a converter from RTF to XSL-FO by Novosoft (commercial).
  • [software] css2xslfo CSSToXSLFO is a utility which can convert an XML document, together with a CSS2 style sheet, into an XSLFO document, which can then be converted into PDF, PostScript, etc. with an XSLFO-processor. It has special support for the XHTML vocabulary, because that is the most obvious language it would be used for. The tool has a number of page-related extensions. It also comes with an API in the form of an XML filter (OSI-Approved Open Source - Public Domain).
  • [software] The XPath Visualizer. Web site says: "This is a full blown Visual XPath Interpreter for the evaluation of any XPath expression and visual presentation of the resulting nodeset or scalar value." Requires Internet Explorer 5+. (freeware)
  • [software] FOP Bridge is an Eclipse plug-in that allows to convert FO documents using Apache FOP directly inside the Eclipse workbench (LGPL).