Installing Apache FOP

Formatting Objects Processor (FOP) is a print formatter. It uses XSL formatting objects (XSL-FO) to produce portable document format (PDF) or direct-printable files. You can use it to format and produce PDF output from XML.

  1. Enter the URL: http://archive.apache.org/dist/xmlgraphics/fop/binaries/
  2. From the FOP page, in the Name column, select "fop-0.20.5-bin.zip"
  3. Click Save to download the fop-0.20.5-bin.zip file and unzip it to the C:\ directory as fop-0.20.5
  4. Set the CLASSPATH environment variable for the following jar files:
    • \build\fop.jar
    • \lib\batik.jar
    • \lib\avalon-framework-cvs-20020806.jar