XSL-FO Tutorials - Herong's Tutorial Examples - v2.25, by Herong Yang
FOP Download and Installation on macOS
This section provides a tutorial on how to download and install Apache™ FOP on macOS systems.
Here is how you can download and install Apache™ FOP 2.7 on a macOS 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-2.7-bin.tar.gz" file to download.
7. Use the browser save file function to save the file to ~/Downloads/fop-2.7-bin.tar.gz. It may take some time to complete the download.
8. Un-zip and un-tar ~/Downloads/fop-2.7-bin.tar.gz. ~/Downloads/fop-2.7 folder shows up.
9. Move ~/Downloads/fop-2.7 to /Library/fop. Installation is completed.
You can follow the same steps to download and install Apache™ FOP 2.5 or other older versions on macOS systems.
See next tutorial on how to verify Apache™ FOP installation on macOS systems.
Table of Contents
►Apache™ FOP (Formatting Objects Processor)
FOP Download and Installation on Windows
FOP Installation Verification on Windows
►FOP Download and Installation on macOS
FOP Installation Verification on macOS
"fop -fo" - Formatting XSL-FO Files
"fop -xml -xsl" - Transformation and Formatting
"fop -xml -xsl -foout" - XSLT Transformations
XSL-FO Document Basics and Examples
Block-Level Formatting Objects
Inline-Level Formatting Objects
Including Graphics in XSL-FO document
Floating Blocks - "float" and "footnote"
Hyperlinks, Table of Contents and Indexes
Headers and Footers using "static-content"
Font Attributes and Font Families
Apache FOP Font Configurations