Formatting Objects Processor

The latest version of Apache FOP is 2.10.{{cite web|url=https://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/status.html|title=Apache FOP Status}} This is the seventeenth stable release.{{cite web|url=https://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/news.html|title=Apache FOP News}}

Most important elements added in XSL-FO 1.1 (flow maps, table markers, indexes. etc.) are not available {{cite web|url=https://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/compliance.html|title=Apache FOP XSL-FO Compliance}}

In addition, older XSL-FO 1.0 features are still not fully supported including automatic table layout, floats and more.

Apache FOP supports embedding a number of image formats in the XSL-FO (through the element). These include:

• SVG
• PNG
• Bitmap BMP
• PostScript (as EPS)
• JPEG
• Some TIFF formats.

Apache FOP implements the element with some limitations.{{cite web |url=https://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/2.0/releaseNotes_2.0.html |title=Apache FOP 2.0 release notes |access-date=2015-12-18}} In versions prior to 2.0, external graphics objects were limited to being drawn inline or in a block with no wrapped text.

Apache FOP supports the following output formats:

• PDF (best output support), including PDF/X and PDF/A with some limitations{{cite web |url=https://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/0.95/pdfx.html |title=FOP 0.95 - PDF/X (ISO 15930) |access-date=2011-05-22}}
• ASCII text file facsimile
• PostScript
• Direct printer output (PCL)
• AFP
• RTF
• Java2D/AWT for display, printing, and page rendering to PNG and TIFF

In progress:

• MIF
• SVG

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• XSL Formatting Objects (XSL-FO)
• XSL

• [https://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/ Apache FOP Project]
• [https://www.data2type.de/en/xml-xslt-xslfo/xsl-fo/formatter-comparison/ XSL-FO formatter comparison]

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