FOP Developer Pages

Design documents

• XslFoSpecificationUncertainties
• ApiRequirements
• ApiDesign
• PropertyHandling
  • PropertyHandling Percentages
  • PropertyHandling PropertyCache
• LineLayout
  • LineLayout AlignmentHandling
  • LineLayout WhitespaceHandling
• FopAndJava2D
• AutomaticHyphenation
• ProcessingFeedback (Monitoring the layout engine)
• ImageSupport
• ExtensionPoints
• Notes on PostScript output
  • ExtensionsForPostScript
  • TrueTypeInPostScript
• Notes on PDF output
  • ExtensionsForPdf
  • Notes on PDF/A
• LogicalStructure (Tagged PDF)
  • PDF_Accessibility
• AreaTreeIntermediateXml
• Notes on PCL output
• Notes on AFP
  • AFPResources
  • AFPOutput (notes on AFP output)
• WhitespaceManagement
• FontSelectionStrategy
• FormattingObjectsForIndexing
• RoundedBorders
• PrepressSupport
• ComplexScripts
• Unifying URI Resolution
• Configuring and Running FOP: Proposed API changes
• Wrapper Design
• Surrogate Pairs
• ChangingIpdLimitations
  

Documents with Relation to the Knuth Approach

• KnuthsModel
• LineBreaking and justification
• PageLayout
  • PageLayout InfluencingFeatures
  • PageLayout InfluenceOfPageSizesOnAlgorithm
  • PageLayout KnuthElementEvaluation
  • PageLayout PageAndLineBreaking
  • PageLayout PageAndLineBreaking/UnifiedApproach
  • PageLayout BestFitPageBreaking
• PagePositionLast
• TableLayout
  • TableLayout KnuthElementsForTables
    • TableLayout KnuthElementsForTables/RowBorder
    • TableLayout KnuthElementsForTables/RowBorder2
    • TableLayout KnuthElementsForTables/RowBorder3
    • TableLayout KnuthElementsForTables/SteppingAlgorithmDerivation
    • TableLayout KnuthElementsForTables/HfIntegrationInSteppingAlgorithm
  • TableLayout TablesAndConditionalSpaces
  • TableLayout RowDelayingMechanism
  • TableLayout BlockProgressionDimensionOnTables
  • TableLayout BreakHandling
  • AutoTableLayout
  • CollapsingBorderModel
  • TableLayout TableMarkers
  • TableLayout KnownProblems
• Footnotes and Before-floats
  • Footnotes
• LayoutExtensions
• SpaceResolution
• BreakPossibilityBuilding
• MultiColumnLayout
• InlineContainerNotes
• ImprovedKeeps
  

Developer HowTo

• HowToCreateLayoutEngineTests
• HowToCreateUnitTests
• VisualTestingFacility
• FOPDevelopersStyleGuide
• FOPIDESetupGuide
• Dynamic FOP with Velocity: http://www.ibstaff.net/fmartinez/?p=15
  

Bugzilla Searches

Open entries for FOP 1.0dev

Patch queue

Patch queue (1.0dev only)

Other

• LiteratureLinks
• GoogleSummerOfCode2006
• GoogleSummerOfCode2012
  

Older Design Documents

• JforIntegrationInFop
• FOPOverConstraintDesign
• FOPWritingModesAndBidiDesign
• FOPFontSubsystemDesign
• FOPAvalonization and API redesign
• FOPLayout
• FOPBatikTranscoders
• FOPAltDesignIntegration
• FOPImplementationNotes

• BreakPossSignallingFullPage