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| <section> |
| <title tab-width="60">Project History</title> |
| <p> |
| The initial code for the Formatting Objects Processor (FOP) was contributed to the |
| Apache Software Foundation by James Tauber in 1999. |
| </p> |
| <p> |
| The project evolved with the W3C specification and was quickly adopted by many. In July of 2003, |
| the most famous version of FOP, 0.20.5, was released. It is now used to produce documents all |
| over the globe. |
| </p> |
| <p> |
| Even before release 0.20.5 a redesign effort commenced to address short-comings |
| that prevented important features from being implemented using the current design. |
| </p> |
| <p> |
| In October 2004, Batik and FOP joined forces and together formed the XML Graphics project. |
| This change was made to scale down the old Apache XML project, to improve |
| project oversight, and to allow for better collaboration because Batik and |
| FOP share many similarities. |
| </p> |
| <p> |
| In 2005, the redesign finally took a leap forward, which resulted in the first release from |
| the new codebase (FOP 0.90alpha). The project team has published a number of releases |
| since then. FOP made big steps forward. |
| </p> |
| <p> |
| The next version, to be released in March 2008, will be 0.95. Although FOP still carries |
| pre 1.0 version numbers it is production-ready. Some features are still missing before |
| version 1.0 can be released. |
| </p> |
| </section> |