On 16/01/13 06:57, Andrew Birchall wrote: > Thanks a lot for your fix. > However the problem I have is that it copies the docbook source file > into the output directory and uses that to build the pdf. > This means it no longer finds the images which are relative to the > source file in a sub-directory of the source directory.
It will behave like this when generating PDF files. The -D option was implemented for HTML based outputs (xhtml, epub, chunked, htmlhelp formats) which consist of an assemblage of images, CSS and HTML as was the related resources options -- so it's never a problem with these outputs, data-uri or no data-uri. So it comes back to the fact that the -D option is no good for PDF outputs, this is a design limitation not a bug (if I had documented that when it was implemented I could have saved us all some time :-) I will document the limitation and get a2x to emit a warning, to put generated PDFs in another location you will need to copy them after a2x has executed. Cheers, Stuart > This is the same problem I noticed when generating the pdf straight from > the asciidoc txt source. > It's not a problem when generating HTML docs as I use the data-uri option. > Thanks > Andy > > On Monday, January 14, 2013 10:11:52 PM UTC, Stuart Rackham wrote: > > > > On 15/01/13 07:56, Andrew Birchall wrote: > > It seems when using a2x you can't output to a separate destination > > directory from where the source file is located? > > > > E.g. using dblatex to create a PDF from docbook source file: > > python a2x.py -D mydocs/publish mydocs/my-document.xml > > > > I get a2x: ERROR: missing docbook file: > > /cygdrive/c/asciidoc-8.6.8/mydocs/publish/my-document.xml > > > > So it seems I have to have the source file in the same location as > the > > destination-dir. Which seems to defeat the whole point of the -D > > (--destination-dir) option? > > XML source behaves differently to AsciiDoc source because when a > DocBook > XML source file is specified as the input a2x simply skips XML file > generation and assumes the XML file already exists in the destination > directory (AsciiDoc source generates XML to the destination directory). > > I've fixed this anomaly: > > https://code.google.com/p/asciidoc/source/detail?r=531e926fd958b45ad99a5a64990df16e8bec37f3 > > <https://code.google.com/p/asciidoc/source/detail?r=531e926fd958b45ad99a5a64990df16e8bec37f3> > > > > Cheers, Stuart > > > > > > I really want to publish the completed output documents to a separate > > directory to where I keep the source files (.txt, .xml, etc.) > > > > Many thanks for any help. > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > > Groups "asciidoc" group. > > To view this discussion on the web visit > > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/asciidoc/-/nYAuionP3E0J > <https://groups.google.com/d/msg/asciidoc/-/nYAuionP3E0J>. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > <javascript:>. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [email protected] <javascript:>. > > For more options, visit this group at > > http://groups.google.com/group/asciidoc?hl=en > <http://groups.google.com/group/asciidoc?hl=en>. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "asciidoc" group. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/asciidoc/-/G2KBikBmqL4J. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/asciidoc?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "asciidoc" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/asciidoc?hl=en.
