Just guessing: You are on Unix and you don't have the display variable set when you run cocoon? If this is the case, either point the display variable to your X environment or, if you don't have one search in the cocoon docu for "headless".
Christoph -----Original Message----- From: Irving Salisbury III [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 23 June 2003 15:27 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Perplexing PDF SVG question I have embedded an SVG image into my xsl:fo document. It renders fine when using command line fop. However, when I put it in a cocoon pipeline, I am getting the following error: ERROR (2003-06-23) 08:02.42:903 [sitemap.serializer.fo2pdf.fop] (/medicaid/sequence/first/pdf) Thread-10/PDFRenderer: svg graphic could not be built: null java.lang.NullPointerException at java.net.URL.<init>(URL.java:366) at java.net.URL.<init>(URL.java:329) at java.net.URL.<init>(URL.java:321) at java.net.URL.<init>(URL.java:252) at java.net.URL.<init>(URL.java:275) at org.apache.batik.util.ParsedURLData.buildURL(Unknown Source) at org.apache.batik.util.ParsedURLData.openStreamInternal(Unknown Source) at org.apache.batik.util.ParsedURLData.openStream(Unknown Source) at org.apache.batik.util.ParsedURL.openStream(Unknown Source) at org.apache.batik.dom.svg.SAXSVGDocumentFactory.createDocument(Unknown Source) at org.apache.batik.bridge.DocumentLoader.loadDocument(Unknown Source) at org.apache.batik.bridge.URIResolver.getNode(Unknown Source) at org.apache.batik.bridge.URIResolver.getElement(Unknown Source) at org.apache.batik.bridge.BridgeContext.getReferencedElement(Unknown Source) at org.apache.batik.bridge.CSSUtilities.convertClipPath(Unknown Source) at org.apache.batik.bridge.AbstractGraphicsNodeBridge.buildGraphicsNode(Unknown Source) at org.apache.batik.bridge.SVGShapeElementBridge.buildGraphicsNode(Unknown Source) at org.apache.batik.bridge.GVTBuilder.buildGraphicsNode(Unknown Source) at org.apache.batik.bridge.GVTBuilder.buildComposite(Unknown Source) at org.apache.batik.bridge.GVTBuilder.buildGraphicsNode(Unknown Source) at org.apache.batik.bridge.GVTBuilder.buildComposite(Unknown Source) at org.apache.batik.bridge.GVTBuilder.buildGraphicsNode(Unknown Source) at org.apache.batik.bridge.GVTBuilder.buildComposite(Unknown Source) at org.apache.batik.bridge.GVTBuilder.build(Unknown Source) at org.apache.fop.render.pdf.PDFRenderer.renderSVGDocument(Unknown Source) at org.apache.fop.render.pdf.PDFRenderer.renderSVGArea(Unknown Source) at org.apache.fop.svg.SVGArea.render(Unknown Source) at org.apache.fop.render.pdf.PDFRenderer.renderForeignObjectArea(Unknown Source) at org.apache.fop.layout.inline.ForeignObjectArea.render(Unknown Source) at org.apache.fop.render.AbstractRenderer.renderLineArea(Unknown Source) at org.apache.fop.layout.LineArea.render(Unknown Source) at org.apache.fop.render.AbstractRenderer.renderBlockArea(Unknown Source) at org.apache.fop.layout.BlockArea.render(Unknown Source) at org.apache.fop.render.AbstractRenderer.renderAreaContainer(Unknown Source) at org.apache.fop.layout.ColumnArea.render(Unknown Source) at org.apache.fop.render.AbstractRenderer.renderSpanArea(Unknown Source) at org.apache.fop.layout.SpanArea.render(Unknown Source) at org.apache.fop.render.AbstractRenderer.renderBodyAreaContainer(Unknown Source) at org.apache.fop.render.pdf.PDFRenderer.renderPage(Unknown Source) at org.apache.fop.render.pdf.PDFRenderer.render(Unknown Source) at org.apache.fop.apps.StreamRenderer.queuePage(Unknown Source) at org.apache.fop.layout.AreaTree.addPage(Unknown Source) at org.apache.fop.fo.pagination.PageSequence.format(Unknown Source) at org.apache.fop.apps.StreamRenderer.render(Unknown Source) at org.apache.fop.fo.FOTreeBuilder.endElement(Unknown Source) at org.apache.cocoon.xml.AbstractXMLPipe.endElement(AbstractXMLPipe.java:147) at org.apache.xalan.transformer.ResultTreeHandler.endElement(ResultTreeHandler. java:307) at org.apache.xalan.templates.ElemLiteralResult.execute(ElemLiteralResult.java: 684) at org.apache.xalan.transformer.TransformerImpl.executeChildTemplates(Transform erImpl.java:2182) at org.apache.xalan.templates.ElemLiteralResult.execute(ElemLiteralResult.java: 678) at org.apache.xalan.transformer.TransformerImpl.executeChildTemplates(Transform erImpl.java:2182) at org.apache.xalan.transformer.TransformerImpl.applyTemplateToNode(Transformer Impl.java:2008) at org.apache.xalan.transformer.TransformerImpl.transformNode(TransformerImpl.j ava:1171) at org.apache.xalan.transformer.TransformerImpl.run(TransformerImpl.java:3135) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:536) Here is the start of the SVG element: <fo:block> <fo:instream-foreign-object height="480px" width="640px"> <svg fill-opacity="1" color-rendering="auto" color-interpolation="auto" stroke="black" text-rendering="auto" stroke-linecap="square" width="640" stroke-miterlimit="10" shape-rendering="auto" stroke-opacity="1" fill="black" stroke-dasharray="none" font-weight="normal" stroke-width="1" height="480" font-family="'sansserif'" font-style="normal" stroke-linejoin="miter" font-size="12" stroke-dashoffset="0" image-rendering="auto"> <defs id="genericDefs"/> <g> <defs id="defs1"> <clipPath clipPathUnits="userSpaceOnUse" id="clipPath1"> <path d="M0 0 L640 0 L640 480 L0 480 L0 0 Z"/> </clipPath> <clipPath clipPathUnits="userSpaceOnUse" id="clipPath2"> <path d="M-209.20654296875 -460.421875 L430.79345703125 -460.421875 L430.79345703125 19.578125 L-209.20654296875 19.578125 L-209.20654296875 -460.421875 Z"/> </clipPath> <clipPath clipPathUnits="userSpaceOnUse" id="clipPath3"> <path d="M56.1474609375 44.82890701293945 L56.1474609375 431.84375 L631 431.84375 L631 44.82890701293945 Z"/> </clipPath> </defs> </snip> Any help would be greatly appreciated. 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