FOP: Development Team

Important

Please don't write to any developer directly if you need help on using FOP. Only if you submit questions to the FOP User Mailing List will other FOP users be able to profit from answers given to your question. Another point is that a developer may have gone inactive or is on holidays in which case you may not get an answer in time.

Max Berger (MB) is currently a PostDoc pursuing an academic career in computer science. His main interest in FOP is to improve the DocBook to PDF tool-chain to produce high quality output, while still conforming to given style-guides. See his home page for more information.

Chris Bowditch (CB) is a Java/VB Programmer from England.

Jay Bryant (JB) is a freelance information architect in Austin, TX.

Adrian Cumiskey (AC), is a Java and Perl Programmer from St Albans, United Kingdom.

Andreas Delmelle (AD)

Luca Furini (LF) is a student of Computer Studies at the University of Bologna (Italy)

Christian Geisert (CG) is a software engineer from Stutensee, Germany. He is working at ISU GmbH, a provider of ERP solutions, where amongst lots of other things he is using FOP to produce nice looking business documents like order confirmations, quotes, invoices etc.

Vincent Hennebert (VH), a Java developer from France; with an interest in typography, and in using Fop as a pdf renderer for book-like documents.

Clay Leeds (CL) is a web/WAP/Palm developer from Laguna Beach, California, USA. A recent XML/XSL-FO convert, he has been nit-picking FAQs & assorted web pages since his first webmaster position @brain.com in 1996. Most important creation? He's got a couple of cool kids.

Manuel Mall (MM) is an independant software engineer resident in Perth, Australia. Born a long time ago in Germany he has been involved in Software Engineering (Informatik) since the early 70's. Over the last years he has used FOP very successfully in commercial projects for his customers (currently generating roughly 15000 PDF files each working day through FOP) and has decided to put some effort back into FOP to make it even better.

Jeremias Märki (JM) is an independent software engineer and consultant from Lucerne, Switzerland. He's also the creator of Barcode4J. See his home page for more information about him.

Simon Pepping (SP) came to FOP from the TeX/LaTeX world. See his home page for some of his private projects.

Jörg Pietschmann (JP)

Louis Masters

Manoj Nair, Currently consulting for Sony Pictures Entertainment in Los Angeles, CA USA. Previously he worked with Java & related technologies specializing in developing n-tier Web applications.

Renaud Richardet (RR) is a Java Programmer interested in XML technologies. See his home page for more information about him.

Pascal Sancho works on software solutions for rendering various kinds of documents on various output targets. He's more specifically taking care of PDF generation with FOP.