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### Resources useful for developing and using FOP Specifications XSL-FO XSLT XML Java PDF Other Books, Tutorials, Articles XSL-FO XSLT XML Java PDF PostScript Related/Useful Products FOP add-ons PDF post-processors XSL-FO editors Other products ### Specifications #### XSL-FO XSL-FO Recommendation (15 October 2001) Unofficial DTD for the XSL-FO Recommendation provided by N. Grigoriev from RenderX. #### XSLT XSLT Recommendation #### XML XML Recommendation Simple API for XML (SAX) Document Object Model (DOM) Namespaces in XML Recommendation #### Java Java JDK 1.3 Documentation #### PDF Portable Document Format (PDF) 1.4 Reference Manual #### Other Supported SVG Recommendation (04 September 2001) ### Books, Tutorials, Articles #### XSL-FO [online book] The XML Bible, by Elliotte Rusty Harold. Chapter 18 of XSL Formatting Objects [online article] Using Formatting Objects with the Slides DTD, by Paul Sandoz. [online article] Using XSL Formatting Objects, by J. David Eisenberg. [online reference] XSL FO reference, by Miloslav Nic. [online book] An introduction to XSL Formatting Objects, by Dave Pawson. See hardcopy version below. [book] XSL-FO, by Dave Pawson, O'Reilly & Associates, 2002, ISBN 0-596-00355-2. See online version above. [book] Definitive XSL-FO, by G. Ken Holman, Prentice Hall PTR, 2003, ISBN 0-131-40374-5. [book] XSL Formatting Objects Developer's Handbook, by Doug Lovell, Sams, 2002, ISBN 0-672-32281-1. [book] Practical Formatting Using XSLFO, Crane Softwrights Ltd., 2003, ISBN 1-894049-11-X. #### XSLT [book] XSLT Programmer's Reference, by Michael H. Kay, Wrox Press, ISBN 1-861-00506-7. [book] XSLT, by Doug Tidwell, O'Reilly & Associates, 2001, ISBN 0-596-00053-7. [book] XSLT Cookbook, by Sal Mangano, O'Reilly & Associates, 2002, ISBN 0-596-00372-2. [article] Dave Pawson's XSL FAQ. [book] XPath and XPointer: Locating Content in XML Documents, by John E. Simpson, O'Reilly & Associates, 2002, ISBN 0-596-00291-2. [book] XSL Essentials, by Michael Fitzgerald, John Wiley & Sons, 2001, ISBN 0-471-41620-7. [book] Java and XSLT, by Eric M. Burke, O'Reilly & Associates, 2001, ISBN 0-596-00143-6. #### XML [online book] The XML Bible, by Elliotte Rusty Harold. See hardcopy version below. [book] The XML Bible, by Elliotte Rusty Harold, John Wiley & Sons, ISBN 0-764-54760-7. See online version above. [online resource] A great number of additional XML-related books and articles can be found at the O'Reilly XML Site. #### Java [online resource] A great number of Java-related books and articles can be found at the O'Reilly Java Site. #### PDF [online resource] Links to the various PDF file format specifications and numerous other documents can be found at Adobe Solutions Network, Acrobat Resources, Acrobat 5.0 SDK Documentation. [online resource] A list of PDF technical resources can be found at Adobe Solutions Network, Acrobat Resources, Acrobat/PDF Technical Notes [online resource] A list of Acrobat and PDF developer resources can be found at Adobe Solutions Network, Acrobat Resources, Resources for Developers. #### PostScript [online resource] A list of PostScript-related technical resources can be found at Adobe Solutions Network, PostScript Language Technical Notes [online resource] Additional PostScript-related developer resources can be found at Adobe Solutions Network, PostScript SDK Archive. ### Related/Useful Products #### FOP add-ons [software] TIFFRenderer is a renderer for outputting multi-page TIFF: http://www.tkachenko.com/fop/tiffrenderer.html (MPL) [software] AFP Renderer / Batch Assembler for FOP: http://mypage.bluewin.ch/huanderegg/ (open source, license unclear) [software] The Mogwai Project includes a renderer for FOP that generates output for Okidata dot matrix printers (GPL). [software] Krysalis Barcode is a barcode generator which can be used with FOP (Apache-style license). #### PDF post-processors [software] iText (MPL and LGPL) [software] PJ Classic by Etymon (GPL) [software] PJ Professional by Etymon (commercial) #### XSL-FO editors [software] FOA (Formatting Objects Authoring) (MPL) [software] FOEditor by Scruffy Software (Shareware) [software] Scriptura by Inventive Designers (commercial) [software] XSLfast by jCatalog Software AG (commercial) [software] XML Report Styler by Rubico (commercial) #### Other products [software] html2fo is a converter from HTML to XSL-FO (GPL). [software] wh2fo is a converter from Word HTML to XSL-FO (MPL). [software] RTF2FO is a converter from RTF to XSL-FO by Novosoft (commercial). [software] The XPath Visualizer. Web site says: "This is a full blown Visual XPath Interpreter for the evaluation of any XPath expression and visual presentation of the resulting nodeset or scalar value." Requires Internet Explorer 5+. (freeware) |

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