This release brings long-awaited features like
keeps on all implemented FO elements, support for
reference-orientation, better indent behavior,
various improvements on inline elements like
baseline-shift, improved leaders and image
handling, improved borderpainting, and more. This
release is the first after a big redesign effort
on the whole FOP codebase. This release is to be
considered ALPHA quality and it is intended as a
preview release encouraging people to take a look
at the new version and to provide feedback to the
developers.
This is the last planned release in the 0.20.x series. Some hyphenation patterns have been removed due to licensing reasons. Documentation is now built with Forrest (version 0.3). The following JARs have been updated: Xerces to v. 2.2.1, Xalan to v. 2.4.1, and Batik to v. 1.5beta4. FOP has been compiled with Jimi and JAI support, but neither Jimi nor JAI is included in the FOP distribution. Links in PDF won't generate multiple link rectangles anymore. If this causes a problem, you can set the system property "links.merge" to "no".
Fixed bugs: text-align-last is now computed from text-align when not explicit. display-sequence no longer causes a fatal error when it contains whitespace. inline-sequence no longer "spills" font properties to the entire line when a line break occurs mid-sequence.
