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FOP: Other Resources

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Resources useful for developing and using FOP

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Books, Tutorials, Articles

XSL-FO

XSLT

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

Related/Useful Products

FOP add-ons

PDF post-processors

XSL-FO editors

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)