Hi, Thanks very much for your suggestions. I switched JVMs to use Sun's 1.5.0_08, then tried again, a new exception was thrown:
org.apache.fop.fo.ValidationException: file:///home/patrick/workspace/SupplierSelect/web/docs/./buyerRef.fo:156:3853: Error(156/3853): fo:block, Invalid property name 'bgcolor at org.apache.fop.fo.FONode.attributeError(FONode.java:312) at org.apache.fop.fo.PropertyList.handleInvalidProperty(PropertyList.java:469) at org.apache.fop.fo.PropertyList.isValidPropertyName(PropertyList.java:357) I then switched to using FOP 0.20.5 and it worked! Although with the -v flag set it did produce warnings similar to the above: [ERROR] property 'bgcolor' ignored I guess the 0.20 branch is more forgiving. One minor problem is that asciidoc test using the glossary style: term:- definition text here is rendered as <glossentry><glossdef> xml in the PDF output. This is very non-crucial for my purposes, but I thought you might like to know. Thanks very much one again - asciidoc is great, and now PDF stuff works we're all set. Regards Patrick Stuart Rackham wrote: > Hi Patrick > > I had a similar problem with the newer FOP 0.20.5 (Ubuntu 6.10, GNU > Java 1.4.2) but FOP 0.93 was OK. > > Interestingly FOP 0.20.5 and 0.93 both work on Ubuntu 7.04, Sun Java > 1.5.0_11 (the sun-java5-jre package). > > If you are using GNU java maybe try the Sun package instead. > > > Cheers, Stuart > > > Patrick wrote: >> Hello, >> >> This is a bit cheeky, because I have no problem with asciidoc at all >> - it's really excellent, and such a jewel after beginning with >> DocBook. Thanks to Stuart and contributors. >> >> I've followed the documents instructions for setting up a2x, and all >> formats are produced nicely except PDF. >> >> Typing FOP at the command line produces a bunch of options. >> >> Typing $ a2x -f pdf buyerRef.txt seems to start nicely, and a >> buyerRef.fo file is written, but then the exception below is thrown. >> >> I suspect this is a JAXP / Java / XML / XSL jar incompatibility >> problem but I don't know how to go about diagnosing it. >> >> My setup is Ubuntu 4.1.1 / Java 1.4.2 / FOP 0.93 / and a jar called >> JimiProClasses.jar >> >> Thanks in advance. >> >> Patrick >> >> >> >> Making portrait pages on A4 paper (210mmx297mm) >> glossentry encountered in sidebar, but no template matches. >> glossdef encountered in glossentry, but no template matches. >> 21-Apr-07 6:51:39 org.apache.fop.cli.Main startFOP >> SEVERE: Exception >> javax.xml.transform.TransformerException: >> http://xml.org/sax/handlers/LexicalHandler >> at org.apache.fop.cli.InputHandler.transformTo(InputHandler.java:168) >> at org.apache.fop.cli.InputHandler.renderTo(InputHandler.java:115) >> at org.apache.fop.cli.Main.startFOP(Main.java:160) >> at org.apache.fop.cli.Main.main(Main.java:191) >> >> --------- >> >> javax.xml.transform.TransformerException: >> http://xml.org/sax/handlers/LexicalHandler >> at >> org.apache.xalan.transformer.TransformerIdentityImpl.transform(TransformerIdentityImpl.java:501) >> >> >> at org.apache.fop.cli.InputHandler.transformTo(InputHandler.java:165) >> at org.apache.fop.cli.InputHandler.renderTo(InputHandler.java:115) >> at org.apache.fop.cli.Main.startFOP(Main.java:160) >> at org.apache.fop.cli.Main.main(Main.java:191) >> Caused by: org.xml.sax.SAXNotSupportedException: >> http://xml.org/sax/handlers/LexicalHandler >> at gnu.xml.stream.SAXParser.setProperty(libgcj.so.70) >> at >> org.apache.xalan.transformer.TransformerIdentityImpl.transform(TransformerIdentityImpl.java:475) >> >> >> ...4 more >> caused by org.xml.sax.SAXNotSupportedException: >> http://xml.org/sax/handlers/LexicalHandler >> at gnu.xml.stream.SAXParser.setProperty(libgcj.so.70) >> at >> org.apache.xalan.transformer.TransformerIdentityImpl.transform(TransformerIdentityImpl.java:475) >> >> >> at org.apache.fop.cli.InputHandler.transformTo(InputHandler.java:165) >> at org.apache.fop.cli.InputHandler.renderTo(InputHandler.java:115) >> at org.apache.fop.cli.Main.startFOP(Main.java:160) >> at org.apache.fop.cli.Main.main(Main.java:191) >> a2x: failed: fop.sh "./buyerRef.fo" "./buyerRef.pdf" >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Asciidoc-discuss mailing list >> Asciidoc-discuss@metaperl.com >> http://metaperl.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/asciidoc-discuss >> >> > _______________________________________________ Asciidoc-discuss mailing list Asciidoc-discuss@metaperl.com http://metaperl.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/asciidoc-discuss