On 16/01/13 22:26, Andrew Birchall wrote: > Ok, thanks a lot for all your help, much appreciated.
I've added a warning when the -D option is used for non-HTML based output formats: Cheers, Stuart > > On Tuesday, January 15, 2013 7:19:37 PM UTC, Stuart Rackham wrote: > > > > 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> > > > > > <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> > > <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> > > <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 > <https://groups.google.com/d/msg/asciidoc/-/G2KBikBmqL4J>. > > 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/-/TQ1CAWRTNcgJ. > 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. 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