help with FOP or another PDF generator?

[Troy Cauble <troy@bell-labs.com>]

Hi all,

I've got a docbook book that produces good looking
html and chunked-html via xsltproc.  But I've had
bad luck trying to generate PDF.

I don't think I'm doing anything fancy.  No images
of my own, just callouts and "draft.mode".  No catalogs
or XLinks.

The following all failed in different ways:
xmlto, dblatex, xmlroff.

Using FO genereated with fop.extensions, FOP 0.20.5
hangs with

   [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
   [INFO] setting up fonts
   [ERROR] property - "background-position-horizontal" is not 
implemented yet.
   [ERROR] property - "background-position-vertical" is not implemented yet



Using FO generated with fop.extensions OR fop1.extensions,
FOP 0.93 crashes with

5-Feb-07 11:19:33 AM org.apache.fop.cli.Main startFOP
SEVERE: Exception
javax.xml.transform.TransformerException: 
http://xml.org/sax/handlers/LexicalHandler
    at org.apache.fop.cli.InputHandler.transformTo(InputHandler.java:168)
    at org.apache.fop.cli.InputHandler.renderTo(InputHandler.java:115)
    at org.apache.fop.cli.Main.startFOP(Main.java:160)
    at org.apache.fop.cli.Main.main(Main.java:191)

---------

javax.xml.transform.TransformerException: 
http://xml.org/sax/handlers/LexicalHandler
    at 
org.apache.xalan.transformer.TransformerIdentityImpl.transform(TransformerIdentityImpl.java:501)
    at org.apache.fop.cli.InputHandler.transformTo(InputHandler.java:165)
    at org.apache.fop.cli.InputHandler.renderTo(InputHandler.java:115)
    at org.apache.fop.cli.Main.startFOP(Main.java:160)
    at org.apache.fop.cli.Main.main(Main.java:191)
Caused by: org.xml.sax.SAXNotSupportedException: 
http://xml.org/sax/handlers/LexicalHandler
    at gnu.xml.stream.SAXParser.setProperty(libgcj.so.70)
    at 
org.apache.xalan.transformer.TransformerIdentityImpl.transform(TransformerIdentityImpl.java:475)
    ...4 more
caused by org.xml.sax.SAXNotSupportedException: 
http://xml.org/sax/handlers/LexicalHandler
    at gnu.xml.stream.SAXParser.setProperty(libgcj.so.70)
    at 
org.apache.xalan.transformer.TransformerIdentityImpl.transform(TransformerIdentityImpl.java:475)
    at org.apache.fop.cli.InputHandler.transformTo(InputHandler.java:165)
    at org.apache.fop.cli.InputHandler.renderTo(InputHandler.java:115)
    at org.apache.fop.cli.Main.startFOP(Main.java:160)
    at org.apache.fop.cli.Main.main(Main.java:191)


Any suggestions?

It would be awkward to send my FO.  (proprietary)

Which PDF generator should I focus my efforts on?
Should I try another FO generator?


-troy