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| APACHE XML GRAPHICS COMMONS - README | |
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| Contents of this file: | |
| - What is Apache XML Graphics Commons? | |
| - Where to get help? | |
| - How do I build Apache XML Graphics Commons? | |
| - Legal information | |
| - Release Notes | |
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| What is Apache XML Graphics Commons? | |
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| It is a place where the Apache Batik and Apache FOP share commonly used | |
| components. Many components in here are also usable and useful stand-alone. | |
| Documentation | |
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| The documentation can be found under: | |
| http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/commons/ | |
| Where to get help? | |
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| Please subscribe to the general@xmlgraphics.apache.org mailing list by sending | |
| an empty mail to general-subscribe@xmlgraphics.apache.org. All you questions | |
| about XML Graphics Commons will be answered there. | |
| Please report bugs to bugzilla at http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/ | |
| How do I build Apache XML Graphics Commons? | |
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| If you've downloaded a binary distribution of Apache FOP or Apache Batik, | |
| you don't need to build XML Graphics Commons. It is distributed with these | |
| two products. | |
| Otherwise, install Apache Ant (http://ant.apache.org) and run "ant" from the | |
| command-line in the directory where you find "build.xml". | |
| Legal information | |
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| Apache XML Graphics Commons is published under the Apache License | |
| version 2.0. For the license text, please see the following files: | |
| - LICENSE | |
| - NOTICE | |
| Legal information on libraries used by Apache XML Graphics Commons, i.e. | |
| its dependencies, can be found in the "lib/README.txt" file. | |
| Apache XML Graphics Commons contains unmodified copies of the Adobe Glyph | |
| List and the ITC Zapf Dingbats Glyph List, available from: | |
| http://www.adobe.com/devnet/opentype/archives/glyph.html | |
| License labeling (according to http://www.apache.org/legal/3party.html): | |
| - Multi-Licensed | |
| - Source Available | |
| - No Reciprocity Required | |
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| KNOWN ISSUES | |
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| - PostScript output: When TexturePaint is used with PSGraphics2D, the output | |
| violates the DSC specification. Extracting single pages from a multi-page | |
| PostScript file can result in errors. | |
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| RELEASE NOTES | |
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| For more detailed info about the changes, please see: | |
| http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/commons/changes.html | |
| Version 1.4 | |
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| This release adds the option to generate smaller PostScript files, | |
| support for the AdobeStandardCyrillic encoding, RefinedImageFlavor, | |
| TexturePaint support for PSGraphics2D (PostScript tiling patterns), | |
| improvements to the XMP framework, optimization for PostScript state | |
| handling in (E)PSDocumentGraphics2D, and more. In addition it contains | |
| a number of bug fixes. | |
| Version 1.3.1 | |
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| This release is mostly a bugfix release for the image loading framework that | |
| has been introduced in version 1.3. | |
| Version 1.3 | |
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| The most important addition in this release is an image loading framework | |
| which supports all sorts of different image formats (bitmap and vector) and | |
| is highly extensible. | |
| Besides that there were a larger number of smaller additions and bugfixes. | |
| Support for Java 1.3 has been dropped. Java 1.4 or later is required now. | |
| Version 1.2 | |
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| This release mainly adds support for CMYK and GRAY color spaces for PSGenerator. | |
| Version 1.1 | |
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| This release adds an XMP metadata framework and brings improvements for the | |
| ImageWriter package plus some minor fixes mainly in the PostScript area. | |
| Version 1.0 | |
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| This is the first release of Apache XML Graphics Commons. There are currently | |
| no known issues with the code. |