Re: Printing on HP Unix using FOP

[Clay Leeds]

On Jan 25, 2006, at 8:58 AM, Gosselin, Michael wrote: -----Original Message----- From: David Delbecq [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]  Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2006 11:48 AM To: fop-dev@xmlgraphics.apache.org Subject: Re: Printing on HP Unix using FOP don't know for fop specific, but isn't this shell command  working on HP-UX? lp /tmp/generated.pdf No, because when I do that, all I get is the code for the PDF document.  You know, the stuff that looks like: "%PDF-1.3 %~1/21/4! ..." I need it to actually print a rendered PDF file.  I thought the command fop.sh -xml foo.xml -xsl foo.xsl -print Would work, but it doesn't.  I get this output: [INFO] Using org.apache.xerces.parsers.SAXParser as SAX2 Parser [INFO] FOP 0.20.5 [INFO] Using org.apache.xerces.parsers.SAXParser as SAX2 Parser [INFO] building formatting object tree java.lang.InternalError: Can't connect to X11 window server using ':0.0' as the value of the DISPLAY variable.         at sun.awt.X11GraphicsEnvironment.initDisplay(Native Method)         at sun.awt.X11GraphicsEnvironment.<clinit>(X11GraphicsEnvironment.java:138)         at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method)         at java.lang.Class.forName(Class.java:142)         at <snip> Michael Gosselin It looks like you're running your system 'headless' . There's a FAQ[1] related to problems running FOP & Batik headless, and [1] shows some workarounds. My company had similar problems, which we resolved by outputting to PostScript (-ps), and then `cat`-ing the file to a PostScript printer like this: fop.sh -xml foo.xml -xsl foo.xsl -ps foo.ps | cat foo.ps > /dev/lp0 HTH! As a bonus, you can pass the PS file through a PostScript RIP system like GhostScript and generate a PDF file (although it might make more sense to just generate a PDF file in the first place). [1] http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/0.20.5/graphics.html#batik