Installing Apache FOP

Formatting Objects Processor (FOP) is a print formatter. It uses XSL formatting objects (XSL-FO) to produce portable document format (PDF) or direct-printable files. You can use it to format and produce PDF output from XML.

1. Enter the URL: http://apache.tradebit.com/pub/xml/fop/
2. From the FOP page, in the Name column, select "fop-0.20.5-bin.tar.gz"
3. Save and extract the package file into a Linux home directory.
4. Set the CLASSPATH environment variable for the following jar files:
   • \build\fop.jar
   • \lib\batik.jar
   • \lib\avalon-framework-cvs-20020806.jar