Smaller example taken from: https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=47279
thread info: http://www.mail-archive.com/fop-users@xmlgraphics.apache.org/msg14198.html -- Mathieu
<?xml version="1.0" standalone="no"?> <fo:root xmlns:fo="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format"> <fo:layout-master-set> <fo:simple-page-master master-name="page" page-height="15cm" page-width="15cm" margin="1cm"> <fo:region-body background-color="#F0F0F0"/> </fo:simple-page-master> </fo:layout-master-set> <fo:page-sequence master-reference="page"> <fo:flow flow-name="xsl-region-body"> <fo:block font-weight="bold">Text that can be rendered using the default sans-serif font family only.</fo:block> </fo:flow> </fo:page-sequence> </fo:root>