Tool Setup Instructions

Apache FOP (XSLFO Processor), Version 0.20.5

If the course you are setting up requires FOP 0.20.5, follow these instructions to set it up on the student and instructor machines. If you have questions, please contact your courseware vendor.

First, note that FOP requires a J2SE runtime. See separate setup instructions for the version 1.4.2 JRE here:

http://www.capcourse.com/Setup/J2RE1.4.2.html

Download FOP itself from the following location:

http://archive.apache.org/dist/xmlgraphics/fop/binaries/fop-0.20.5-bin.zip

Unpack the entire contents of the archive into a new directory anywhere on the machine; on Windows systems, extracting right to the c:\ root is a common practice, since everything is contained in a root directory fop-0.20.5. We also suggest renaming the top-level directory to something simpler, such as FOP.

Wherever you install it, this root directory must be included in the executable path for the system.

To test the installation, open a command console and simply type fop. You should see a usage statement something like the following. This should succeed from any working directory.

fop
USAGE
Fop [options] [-fo|-xml] infile [-xsl file] 
      [-awt|-pdf|-mif|-pcl|-ps|-txt|-at|-print] <outfile>
 [OPTIONS]
  -d             debug mode
  -x             dump configuration settings
...
[ERROR] No input file specified