JFO - Java Formatting Objects

Reporting solution

Design reports with your favorite RTF Editor (Word, Open Office) and give your customers the opportunity to design their reports. JFO merges business data during RTF to XML transformation and renders the XML document directly to a final format like PDF using the open source renderer FOP or any other renderer.

RTF to XSL-FO processor

Converts RTF documents (Rich Text Format, e.g. saved from Microsoft Word) to XML (XSL-FO). In general XSL-FO documents are transformed (rendered) afterwards to other formats like XHTML, PDF, Postscript or PCL.

Supported XSL-FO renderers

Most of existing XSL-FO renderers can simply be plugged in by adding the JARs to the classpath and changing the configuration. JFO has built-in support for FOP (shipped with JFO), XEP, XSL Formatter, Ibex and Xinc and provides a set of compatibility modes to achieve best output quality (workarounds for bugs, linespacing etc.) The integration of new renderers and transformers is very easy.

XSL-FO Java API

If you need to create XSL-FO documents with pure Java Code or you want to post-process imported documents, JFO provides an easy to use Java API for accessing and modifying the XSL-FO document tree. * Plattform independent, Java based JFO runs on any plattform with Java 1.4 or later.