FOP Download and Installation on Windows

∟FOP Download and Installation on Windows

This section provides a tutorial on how to download and install Apache™ FOP on Windows systems.

Here is how you can download and install Apache™ FOP 2.5 on a Windows system:

1. Go to Apache™ FOP home page at https://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/.

2. Click "Download" in the left menu. "Apache™ FOP: Downloading A Distribution" page shows up.

3. Click "FOP Distribution mirror" in the "Binary Download" section. Apache™ download mirror site list shows up.

4. Click the suggested mirror site. The download folder list shows up.

5. Click "binaries/" folder. The download file list shows up.

6. Click "fop-2.5-bin.zip" file to download.

7. Use the browser save file function to save the file to C:\temp\fop-2.5-bin.zip. It may take some time to complete the download.

8. Unzip C:\temp\fop-2.5-bin.zip. C:\temp\fop-2.5 folder shows up.

9. Move C:\temp\fop-2.5 to C:\fop. Installation is completed.

You can follow the same steps to download and install Apache™ FOP 2.1 or other older versions on Windows systems.

See next tutorial on how to verify Apache™ FOP installation on Windows systems.

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