Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: org.apache.fop.apps.Fop does not generate any output

[Daniel Veillard <veillard@redhat.com>]

On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 11:32:44PM +0200, Johannes Zellner wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 02:05:19PM -0700, Bob Stayton wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 09:53:44AM +0200, Johannes Zellner wrote:
> > > 
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > # org.apache.fop.apps.Fop index.fo -pdf index.pdf
> > > [INFO]: FOP 0.20.3
> > > 
> > > just does not generate any pdf output.
> > > But I don't get any error messages.
> > > What could be the problem?
> > 
> > Are you able to process other docbook .fo files?
> > 
> > If so, then take a peek inside this one to see if it looks
> > anything like the others that do work.  Perhaps it
> > has no fo:page-sequence elements?
> > 
> > What tools are you using to generate the index.fo file?
> 
> xsltproc
> 
> I tracked down the problem on a different machine. It seems that
> 'kaffe' is not able to handle apache's fop. On a different machine
> I get with 'kaffe':
> 
> [INFO]: FOP 0.20.3
> java.lang.NullPointerException
>         at org.apache.fop.apps.Service.providers(Driver.java:586)
>         at org.apache.fop.apps.Driver.setupDefaultMappings(Driver.java:307)
>         at org.apache.fop.apps.Driver.<init>(Driver.java:201)
>         at org.apache.fop.apps.CommandLineStarter.run(CommandLineStarter.java:58)
>         at org.apache.fop.apps.Fop.main(Fop.java:19)
> 
> with blackdown java everything works fine. Unfortunately there's only kaffe
> on the machine at work and I've no root access ;-(

  hum, there was some discussion on the Kaffe list about running XSLT
processors with Kaffe but I can't remember FOP being mentionned.
Maybe asking the sysadmin to upgrade to Kaffe 1.0.7 Release Candidate 1
may help, there had been a lot of work recently.
   http://kaffe.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kaffe

> Are there any other fop converters except the one by apache?

  Commercial and closed source ones, yes. In source, I don't think so.

Daniel

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