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  <header> 
    <title>Apache™ XML Graphics Commons</title>
  </header> 
  <body> 
    <section>
      <title>Overview</title>
      <p>
        Apache™ XML Graphics Commons is a library that consists of several reusable components 
        used by <a href="ext:batik">Apache Batik</a> and <a href="ext:fop">Apache FOP</a>. 
        Many of these components can easily be used separately outside the domains of SVG 
        and XSL-FO. You will find components such as a PDF library, an RTF library, Graphics2D 
        implementations that let you generate PDF &amp; PostScript files, and much more.
      </p>
      <p>The Apache™ XML Graphics Commons project is part of the <a href="http://www.apache.org">Apache™</a>
        Software Foundation, which is a wider community of users and developers of open
		source projects.
      </p>
      <p>
        In the Wiki, we have a 
        <a href="http://wiki.apache.org/xmlgraphics/XmlGraphicsCommonComponents">Roadmap for Apache XML Graphics Commons</a>.
        This roadmap is the place to describe new ideas for the project.
      </p>
    </section>
    <section id="features">
      <title>Features</title>
      <p>
        Components which have been ported from <a href="ext:batik">Apache Batik</a> and
        <a href="ext:fop">Apache FOP</a> include:
      </p>
      <table>
        <tr>
          <th>Description</th>
          <th>Package</th>
          <th>Provenance</th>
        </tr>
        <tr>
          <td>Image codecs for PNG and TIFF</td>
          <td>org.apache.xmlgraphics.image.codec</td>
          <td>Batik</td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
          <td>Bitmap image writer abstraction with implementation for the above codecs and for the Image I/O API.</td>
          <td>org.apache.xmlgraphics.image.writer</td>
          <td>Batik</td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
          <td>Java2D helper classes</td>
          <td>org.apache.xmlgraphics.image.rendered and org.apache.xmlgraphics.java2d</td>
          <td>Batik</td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
          <td>Image loader framework (format detection, conversion and unified handling for bitmap and vector images).</td>
          <td>org.apache.xmlgraphics.image.loader</td>
          <td>new</td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
          <td>Graphics2D implementation that produces PostScript and EPS</td>
          <td>org.apache.xmlgraphics.java2d.ps</td>
          <td>FOP</td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
          <td>Helper classes for PostScript code production</td>
          <td>org.apache.xmlgraphics.ps</td>
          <td>FOP</td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
          <td>Parser/Processor for DSC-compliant PostScript files (DSC = 
            <a href="http://partners.adobe.com/public/developer/en/ps/5001.DSC_Spec.pdf">Document Structuring Conventions</a>)
          </td>
          <td>org.apache.xmlgraphics.ps.dsc</td>
          <td>new</td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
          <td><a href="http://www.adobe.com/products/xmp/index.html">XMP metadata</a> framework</td>
          <td>org.apache.xmlgraphics.xmp</td>
          <td>new</td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
          <td>Various I/O classes, encoders and decoders for various formats</td>
          <td>org.apache.xmlgraphics.util.io</td>
          <td>Batik/FOP</td>
        </tr>
      </table>
    </section>
    <section>
      <title>News</title>
      <p>
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