"Woods, John T." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Has anyone seen the messages
Yes, i have. So what? Lean back. First, ask yourself whether you should continue to experiment with a program which clearly states: > CVS FOP DOES NOT WORK - DO NOT EXPECT ANYTHING Someone provided you with an installation with code that is not intended for public use and is not distributed by default. And which doesn't work. Which doesn't matter because whoever installed the stuff on your machine fubar'd it anyway. Try to locate a working distribution. Look around in your directories whether you find something which looks like useful information. If this fails, use the Google internet search engine and type "fop download" into the search form. If you don't know what Google is or you can't locate the distribution within 30 seconds after the search engine answered, ask your superior for a basic training course. Choose a directory for your FOP installation. You seem to have used D:\fop-0.20.3 in earlier tries. Delete all content of the directory, including all subdirectories. After you've downloaded a file named fop-0.20.3-bin.tar.gz unpack it into this directory. If you don't know how to unpack the file, ask a local wizard, or take hints from recent posts on this list. Unpacking .tar.gz files is supposed to be generally available knowledge and will not be discussed further on this list. Make the directory the current directory and type in the following command: fop docs\examples\fo\simple.fo simple.pdf You should see something like this: D:\fop-0.20.3>java -cp build\fop.jar;lib\batik.jar;lib\xalan-2.0.0.jar; lib\xerces-1.2.3.jar;lib\avalon-framework-4.0.jar;lib\logkit-1.0.jar;li b\jimi-1.0.jar org.apache.fop.apps.Fop docs\examples\fo\simple.fo simple.pdf [INFO]: FOP 0.20.3 [INFO]: building formatting object tree [INFO]: [1] [INFO]: Parsing of document complete, stopping renderer Afterwards, there should be a file simple.pdf in your directory. If you still see a message containing Could not find org.apache.xerces.parsers.SAXParser or ClassNotFoundException or DOES NOT WORK somewhere this means you screwed up. This is, however, not a problem with FOP. Ask a local guru to fix it for you. Furthermore: > Has anyone seen the messages in bold. Do not assume everyone else uses the same mail client as you. In particular, to many people it would be presented similar to this: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=fop-user&m=101664483513565&w=2 You are advised to read the instructions you already got again. Read them carefully. You are already on the brink of being killfiled. J.Pietschmann
