FOP-0.20.5

Choose the “Linux JDK Install” file after accepting the license agreement.

Install the JAI components by running the following commands as the root user while in the root of the FOP source tree:

chmod 755 ../jai-1_1_2_01-lib-linux-i586-jdk.bin &&
FOP_BUILD_DIR=$(pwd) &&
cd $JAVA_HOME &&
yes | $FOP_BUILD_DIR/../jai-1_1_2_01-lib-linux-i586-jdk.bin &&
cd $FOP_BUILD_DIR

Install FOP by running the following commands:

./build.sh &&
sed -i -e "s/build/lib/" fop.sh

Now, as the root user:

install -v -d -m755 \
    /opt/fop-0.20.5/{bin,lib,docs/{general,lib,site}} &&
install -v -m755 fop.sh /opt/fop-0.20.5/bin &&
install -v -m644 build/fop.jar lib/avalon-framework-cvs-20020806.jar \
    /opt/fop-0.20.5/lib &&
install -v -m644 docs/* /opt/fop-0.20.5/docs &&
install -v -m644 CHANGES LICENSE README ReleaseNotes.html STATUS \
    /opt/fop-0.20.5/docs/general &&
install -v -m644 lib/{avalon.LICENSE.txt,readme} \
    /opt/fop-0.20.5/docs/lib &&
cp -v -R build/site/* /opt/fop-0.20.5/docs/site &&
ln -svf fop-0.20.5 /opt/fop

You'll need to install one additional Java class library to process SVG objects. This library is part of the Batik package, but is also included with the FOP package. If you have Batik installed, ensure the batik.jar library is included in your $CLASSPATH environment variable. Alternatively, create a symbolic link from /opt/fop-0.20.5/lib/batik.jar pointing to the full path of the installed batik.jar file so that the fop.sh script will automatically pick it up.

If you don't have the Batik package installed, run the following commands as the root user:

install -v -m644 lib/batik.jar /opt/fop-0.20.5/lib &&
install -v -m644 lib/batik.LICENSE.txt \
    /opt/fop-0.20.5/docs/lib

The components of FOP required to process FO files created by an XSL transformation engine (also known as an XSLT processor) is now complete. An XSL transformation engine (xsltproc) is included with the libxslt-1.1.12 package in BLFS. The FOP package includes components of Xalan-Java to accomplish XSL transformations. If you have the Xalan-Java package installed, skip to the next section.

If you wish to install the Xalan-Java components provided by the FOP package, run the following commands as the root user:

sed -i -e "s/build/lib/" xalan.sh &&
install -v -m755 xalan.sh /opt/fop-0.20.5/bin &&
install -v -m644 lib/xml-apis.jar \
                 lib/xercesImpl-2.2.1.jar \
                 lib/xalan-2.4.1.jar \
    /opt/fop-0.20.5/lib &&
install -v -m644 lib/{xml-apis,xerces,xalan}.LICENSE.txt \
                 lib/xml-apis.README.txt \
    /opt/fop-0.20.5/docs/lib

If you installed the Java Image I/O class library (Jimi SDK) into the FOP source tree lib directory before building FOP (this will enable Jimi support), ensure you also install this JAR file into /opt/fop-0.20.5/lib.

~/.foprc

Using FOP to process some large FO's (including the FO derived from the BLFS XML sources), can lead to memory errors. Unless you add a parameter to the java command used in the fop.sh script you may receive messages similar to the one shown below:

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space

To avoid errors like this, you need to pass an extra parameter to the java command used in the fop.sh script. This can be accomplished by creating a ~/.foprc (which is sourced by the fop.sh script) and adding the parameter to the FOP_OPTS environment variable.

The fop.sh script looks for a FOP_HOME environment variable to locate the FOP class libraries. You can create this variable using the ~/.foprc file as well. Create a ~/.foprc file using the following commands:

cat > ~/.foprc << "EOF"
FOP_OPTS="-Xmx[RAM_Installed]m"
FOP_HOME="/opt/fop"

EOF

Replace [RAM_Installed] with a number representing the amount of RAM installed in your computer. An example would be FOP_OPTS="-Xmx768m". For more information about memory issues running FOP, see http://xml.apache.org/fop/running.html#memory.

To include the fop.sh script in your path, update your personal or system-wide profile with the following:

PATH=$PATH:/opt/fop/bin