fop-2.11

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# fop-2.11

## Introduction to fop

The FOP (Formatting Objects Processor) package contains a print formatter driven by XSL formatting objects (XSL-FO). It is a Java application that reads a formatting object tree and renders the resulting pages to a specified output. Output formats currently supported include PDF, PCL, PostScript, SVG, XML (area tree representation), print, AWT, MIF and ASCII text. The primary output target is PDF.

### Note

Development versions of BLFS may not build or run some packages properly if LFS or dependencies have been updated since the most recent stable versions of the books.

### Package Information

- Download (HTTP): https://archive.apache.org/dist/xmlgraphics/fop/source/fop-2.11-src.tar.gz

- Download MD5 sum: b202dcd7c6dcaf3ec5d14bb193d7bf01

- Download size: 21 MB

- Estimated disk space required: 343 MB (including files downloaded to the user directory)

- Estimated build time: 0.9 SBU

### Additional Downloads

Required Additional Downloads:

- Maven build system:
  https://archive.apache.org/dist/maven/maven-3/3.9.12/binaries/apache-maven-3.9.12-bin.tar.gz
  bcd2fb0a7f3f27047b693c2a2818c965
  11 MB (additionally, about 90 MB are downloaded to the building user's directory)

Recommended packages

- Objects for Formatting Objects (OFFO) hyphenation patterns:
  https://downloads.sourceforge.net/offo/2.2/offo-hyphenation.zip
  bf9c09bf05108ef9661b8f08d91c2336
  862 KB

### fop Dependencies

#### Required

apache-ant-1.10.17

#### Optional

a graphical environment (to run tests), JAI Image I/O Tools, and JEuclid

## Installation of fop

Ensure `$JAVA_HOME` is set correctly before beginning the build. To build the JIMI SDK and/or XMLUnit extension classes, ensure the corresponding `.jar` files can be found via the `CLASSPATH` environment variable.

### Installing OFFO Hyphenation Patterns

Copy the XML hyphenation patterns into the fop source tree by running the following commands:

    python3 -m zipfile -e ../offo-hyphenation.zip . &&
    cp offo-hyphenation/hyph/* fop/hyph &&
    rm -rf offo-hyphenation

### Installing a temporary Maven binary

Starting with fop-2.5, the Maven build system is required. We use the binary provided by apache, that we install in a temporary location:

    tar -xf ../apache-maven-3.9.12-bin.tar.gz -C /tmp

### Installing fop Components

The javadoc command that ships with OpenJDK 10 and later has become much stricter than previous versions regarding conformance of the Javadoc comments in source code to HTML. The FOP documentation does not meet those standards, so the conformance checks have to be disabled. This can be done with the following command:

    sed -i '\@</javad@i\
    <arg value="-Xdoclint:none"/>\
    <arg value="--allow-script-in-comments"/>\
    <arg value="--ignore-source-errors"/>' \
        fop/build.xml

Compile fop by running the following commands:

    cd fop &&

    LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8                      \
    PATH=$PATH:/tmp/apache-maven-3.9.12/bin \
    ant package javadocs &&

    mv build/javadocs .

This package comes with a test suite, but the java infrastructure installed in this book does not allow running it.

Now, install Fop as the `root` user:

    install -v -d -m755 -o root -g root          /opt/fop-2.11 &&
    cp -vR build conf examples fop* javadocs lib /opt/fop-2.11 &&
    chmod a+x /opt/fop-2.11/fop                                &&
    ln -v -sfn fop-2.11 /opt/fop

Finally, remove the temporary copy of Apache Maven:

    rm -rf /tmp/apache-maven-3.9.12

## Command Explanations

sed -i ... build.xml: This adds three switches to the javadoc command, preventing some errors from occurring when building the documentation.

export LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8: the compiler fails if using an ASCII locale.

ant `target`: This reads the file `build.xml` and builds the target: `compile` compiles the java sources, `jar-main` generates jar archives, `jar-hyphenation` generates the hyphenation patterns for FOP, `junit` runs the junit tests, and `javadocs` builds the documentation. The `all` target runs all of the above.

ln -v -sf fop-2.11 /opt/fop: This is optional and creates a convenience symlink so that `$FOP_HOME` doesn't have to be changed each time there's a package version change.

## Configuring fop

### Config Files

`~/.foprc`

### Configuration Information

Using fop to process some large FO's (including the FO derived from the BLFS XML sources), can lead to memory errors. Unless you add a parameter to the java command used in the fop script you may receive messages similar to the one shown below:

`Exception in thread "main" java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space`

To avoid errors like this, you need to pass an extra parameter to the java command used in the fop script. This can be accomplished by creating a `~/.foprc` (which is sourced by the fop script) and adding the parameter to the `FOP_OPTS` environment variable.

The fop script looks for a `FOP_HOME` environment variable to locate the fop class libraries. You can create this variable using the `~/.foprc` file as well. Create a `~/.foprc` file using the following commands:

    cat > ~/.foprc << "EOF"
    FOP_OPTS="-Xmx<RAM_Installed>m"
    FOP_HOME="/opt/fop"
    EOF

Replace `<RAM_Installed>` with a number representing the amount of RAM installed in your computer (in megabytes). An example would be `FOP_OPTS="-Xmx768m"`.

To include the fop script in your path, update the system-wide profile with the following command as the `root` user:

    cat > /etc/profile.d/fop.sh << "EOF"
    # Begin /etc/profile.d/fop.sh

    pathappend /opt/fop

    # End /etc/profile.d/fop.sh
    EOF

### Note

Running fop can be somewhat verbose. The default logging level can be changed from INFO to any of FINEST, FINER, FINE, CONFIG, INFO, WARNING, SEVERE, ALL, or OFF. To do this, edit `$JAVA_HOME/jre/lib/logging.properties` and change the entries for `.level` and `java.util.logging.ConsoleHandler.level` to the desired value.

## Contents

Installed Programs: fop
Installed Libraries: fop.jar and numerous support library classes located in `/opt/fop/{build,lib}`; JAI components include libmlib_jai.so, jai_codec.jar, jai_core.jar, and mlibwrapper_jai.jar
Installed Directory: /opt/fop-2.11

### Short Descriptions

fop | is a wrapper script to the java command which sets up the fop environment and passes the required parameters
`fop.jar` | contains all the fop Java classes

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