Re: [docbook-apps] help with FOP or another PDF generator?

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

Troy Cauble wrote:
> 
> 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)

Actually, I just verified that I get the above errors with
both versions of FOP when using a minimal docbook doc:


<?xml version='1.0'?>
<!DOCTYPE book
         PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.3//EN"
         "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.3/docbookx.dtd";
[
]>
<book><title>My title</title>

</book>



-troy