[solved] asciidoc -- pdf/roff

Hi,
I am playing around with asciidoc, and already can convert some stuff to html, but not to pdf/roff. This is done by a script called a2x. According to the manpage, this requires:
- xsltproc (presumably named libxslt in Arch)
- DocBook XSL Stylesheets (docbook-xsl)
- FOP (for PDF file generation)
- Lynx (for text file generation)
fop is from AUR, and I to had rename /usr/bin/fop (a simple link to the file in /var/abs/local) to /usr/bin/fop.sh. But still, I get errors like this:
[tlaloc@archbox ~]$ a2x -f pdf TODOS2.txt
Making portrait pages on A4 paper (210mmx297mm)
07.04.2008 13:43:21 org.apache.fop.cli.Main startFOP
SCHWERWIEGEND: Exception
javax.xml.transform.TransformerException: org.apache.fop.apps.FOPException: file:/home/tlaloc/./TODOS2.fo:1:25385: Error(1/25385): No element mapping definition found for (Namespace URI: "http://xml.apache.org/fop/extensions", Local Name: "destination")
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:166)
at org.apache.fop.cli.Main.main(Main.java:197)
javax.xml.transform.TransformerException: org.apache.fop.apps.FOPException: file:/home/tlaloc/./TODOS2.fo:1:25385: Error(1/25385): No element mapping definition found for (Namespace URI: "http://xml.apache.org/fop/extensions", Local Name: "destination")
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:166)
at org.apache.fop.cli.Main.main(Main.java:197)
Caused by: org.apache.fop.apps.FOPException: file:/home/tlaloc/./TODOS2.fo:1:25385: Error(1/25385): No element mapping definition found for (Namespace URI: "http://xml.apache.org/fop/extensions", Local Name: "destination")
at org.apache.fop.fo.ElementMappingRegistry.findFOMaker(ElementMappingRegistry.java:143)
<snip>
org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl$FragmentContentDispatcher.dispatch(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanDocument(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(Unknown Source)
<snip>
org.apache.fop.apps.FOPException: file:/home/tlaloc/./TODOS2.fo:1:25385: Error(1/25385): No element mapping definition found for (Namespace URI: "http://xml.apache.org/fop/extensions", Local Name: "destination")
at org.apache.fop.fo.ElementMappingRegistry.findFOMaker(ElementMappingRegistry.java:143)
at org.apache.fop.fo.FOTreeBuilder.findFOMaker(FOTreeBuilder.java:214)
<snip>
org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl$FragmentContentDispatcher.dispatch(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanDocument(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(Unknown Source)
<snip>
a2x: failed: fop.sh "./TODOS2.fo" "./TODOS2.pdf"
[tlaloc@archbox ~]$
Does anyone has more insight to /experience with this.
Best regards,
Matt
Last edited by tlaloc (2008-05-05 11:50:26)

I have made a new PKGBUILD for fop using version 0.20.5 (as recommended here).
It worked with a2x.
# Contributor: Mildred <[email protected]>
# Mantainer: Andres Blanc <[email protected]>
pkgname=fop
pkgver=0.20.5
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="XSL-FO Apache processor. Transform XSL-FO documents into various formats like PDF, PS, SVG and more"
arch=(i686)
url="http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/"
license=('APACHE')
depends=('java-runtime')
source=("http://archive.apache.org/dist/xml/fop/binaries/fop-$pkgver-bin.tar.gz")
md5sums=('d6b43e3eddf9378536ad8127bc057d41')
build() {
mkdir "$startdir/pkg/opt"
mkdir -p "$startdir/pkg/usr/bin"
cp -r "$startdir/src/fop-$pkgver" "$startdir/pkg/opt/fop"
ln -s /opt/fop/fop.sh $startdir/pkg/usr/bin/fop.sh || return 1
return 0
You can also use dblatex to convert from docbook to pdf using latex. It is in AUR.
I hope it helped.

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