FOP README What is FOP? FOP is the world's first print formatter driven by XSL formatting objects. It is a Java application that reads a formatting object tree conforming to the XSL 1.0 Recommendation (15 October 2001) and then turns it into a PDF document or allows you to preview it directly on screen. FOP is part of Apache's XML Graphics project. The homepage of FOP is http://xml.apache.org/fop. Our resources page is at http://xml.apache.org/fop/resources.html. Please report bugs to bugzilla at http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/ A mailing list for how to use FOP is at fop-users@xmlgraphics.apache.org (subscribe by sending an empty mail to fop-users-subscribe@xmlgraphics.apache.org) Before you post any questions, please have a look at the FAQ at http://xml.apache.org/fop/fo.html. Instructions for building FOP from source code: FOP uses Apache Ant as its build system. You can download Apache Ant from http://ant.apache.org. Ant installation instructions: 1. Download and install Ant 2. Set the ANT_HOME environment variable to the directory where you've placed Ant. 3. Add "%%ANT_HOME%%\bin" to your PATH so the "ant.bat" batch file can be executed from wherever needed. 4. (optional) Download JUnit and place junit-*.jar in %%ANT_HOME%%\lib. This enables the JUnit test cases. After Ant is installed, you can build FOP simply by navigating to the FOP base directory and typing "ant".