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1marc1
Hi Team,

I am busy installing asciidoctor-fopub on a Windows 10 machine. I have both JRE version 1.7.0_40 and 1.8.0_171 installed.

I created the sample.xml file following the instructions from the github page:
https://github.com/asciidoctor/asciidoctor-fopub

I have the JAVA_HOME environment variable set to "C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jre7". If I now run:
fopub sample.xml
then the output is:
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: org/apache/fop/cli/InputHandler : Unsupported major.minor version 52.0

This made me think that my Java version 1.7 was not supported. So I installed 1.8 and set the JAVA_HOME environment variable to "C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jre1.8.0_171". If I now run:
fopub sample.xml
then the output is:
 USAGE
fop [options] [-fo|-xml] infile [-xsl file] [-awt|-pdf|-mif|-rtf|-tiff|-png|-pcl|-ps|-txt|-at [mime]|-print] <outfile>
 [OPTIONS]
  -version          print FOP version and exit
  -x                dump configuration settings
  -c cfg.xml        use additional configuration file cfg.xml
  -l lang           the language to use for user information
  -nocs             disable complex script features
  -r                relaxed/less strict validation (where available)
  -dpi xxx          target resolution in dots per inch (dpi) where xxx is a number
  -s                for area tree XML, down to block areas only
  -v                run in verbose mode (currently simply print FOP version and continue)

  -o [password]     PDF file will be encrypted with option owner password
  -u [password]     PDF file will be encrypted with option user password
  -noprint          PDF file will be encrypted without printing permission
  -nocopy           PDF file will be encrypted without copy content permission
  -noedit           PDF file will be encrypted without edit content permission
  -noannotations    PDF file will be encrypted without edit annotation permission
  -nofillinforms    PDF file will be encrypted without fill in interactive form fields permission
  -noaccesscontent  PDF file will be encrypted without extract text and graphics permission
  -noassembledoc    PDF file will be encrypted without assemble the document permission
  -noprinthq        PDF file will be encrypted without print high quality permission
  -a                enables accessibility features (Tagged PDF etc., default off)
  -pdfprofile prof  PDF file will be generated with the specified profile
                    (Examples for prof: PDF/A-1b or PDF/X-3:2003)

  -conserve         enable memory-conservation policy (trades memory-consumption for disk I/O)
                    (Note: currently only influences whether the area tree is serialized.)

  -cache            specifies a file/directory path location for the font cache file
  -flush            flushes the current font cache file

 [INPUT]
  infile            xsl:fo input file (the same as the next)
                    (use '-' for infile to pipe input from stdin)
  -fo  infile       xsl:fo input file
  -xml infile       xml input file, must be used together with -xsl
  -atin infile      area tree input file
  -ifin infile      intermediate format input file
  -imagein infile   image input file (piping through stdin not supported)
  -xsl stylesheet   xslt stylesheet

  -param name value <value> to use for parameter <name> in xslt stylesheet
                    (repeat '-param name value' for each parameter)

  -catalog          use catalog resolver for input XML and XSLT files
 [OUTPUT]
  outfile           input will be rendered as PDF into outfile
                    (use '-' for outfile to pipe output to stdout)
  -pdf outfile      input will be rendered as PDF (outfile req'd)
  -pdfa1b outfile   input will be rendered as PDF/A-1b compliant PDF
                    (outfile req'd, same as "-pdf outfile -pdfprofile PDF/A-1b")
  -awt              input will be displayed on screen
  -rtf outfile      input will be rendered as RTF (outfile req'd)
  -pcl outfile      input will be rendered as PCL (outfile req'd)
  -ps outfile       input will be rendered as PostScript (outfile req'd)
  -afp outfile      input will be rendered as AFP (outfile req'd)
  -tiff outfile     input will be rendered as TIFF (outfile req'd)
  -png outfile      input will be rendered as PNG (outfile req'd)
  -txt outfile      input will be rendered as plain text (outfile req'd)
  -at [mime] out    representation of area tree as XML (outfile req'd)
                    specify optional mime output to allow the AT to be converted
                    to final format later
  -if [mime] out    representation of document in intermediate format XML (outfile req'd)
                    specify optional mime output to allow the IF to be converted
                    to final format later
  -print            input file will be rendered and sent to the printer
                    see options with "-print help"
  -out mime outfile input will be rendered using the given MIME type
                    (outfile req'd) Example: "-out application/pdf D:\out.pdf"
                    (Tip: "-out list" prints the list of supported MIME types and exits)
  -svg outfile      input will be rendered as an SVG slides file (outfile req'd)
                    Experimental feature - requires additional fop-sandbox.jar.

  -foout outfile    input will only be XSL transformed. The intermediate
                    XSL-FO file is saved and no rendering is performed.
                    (Only available if you use -xml and -xsl parameters)


 [Examples]
  fop foo.fo foo.pdf
  fop -fo foo.fo -pdf foo.pdf (does the same as the previous line)
  fop -xml foo.xml -xsl foo.xsl -pdf foo.pdf
  fop -xml foo.xml -xsl foo.xsl -foout foo.fo
  fop -xml - -xsl foo.xsl -pdf -
  fop foo.fo -mif foo.mif
  fop foo.fo -rtf foo.rtf
  fop foo.fo -print
  fop foo.fo -awt

Jun 15, 2018 4:05:26 PM org.apache.fop.cli.Main startFOP
SEVERE: Exception
org.apache.fop.apps.FOPException: Don't know what to do with -
        at org.apache.fop.cli.CommandLineOptions.parseUnknownOption(CommandLineOptions.java:737)
        at org.apache.fop.cli.CommandLineOptions.parseOptions(CommandLineOptions.java:399)
        at org.apache.fop.cli.CommandLineOptions.parse(CommandLineOptions.java:167)
        at org.apache.fop.cli.Main.startFOP(Main.java:169)
        at org.apache.fop.cli.Main.main(Main.java:217)

Any thoughts of what I am doing wrong?

asciidoctor-fopub is working fine in my Linux environment with JRE 1.8.0_171.

A big "THANK YOU" to all those working on making asciidoctor such a great set of tools!

Thank you.

Marc.
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Re: asciidoctor-fopub on Windows 10

Andrew Carver
Marc, not being an expert I do however have one idea, which I learned by hard experience:  Have you installed the JDK, or just the JRE?

I raise this because everywhere in your description you mention JRE, but not JDK: My experience is that JRE by itself will not suffice with fopub, you must install JDK.

(which Dan does specify--but still, I learned the hard way: https://github.com/asciidoctor/asciidoctor-fopub)
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Re: asciidoctor-fopub on Windows 10

1marc1
Andrew,

Oops. It may be a case of RTFM on my behalf. I will try again.

BTW: I am still to try out your code for the chapters in fopub. I got very busy around the time that we were messaging about that so it slipped.

Marc.
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Re: asciidoctor-fopub on Windows 10

1marc1
...well I don't know what to do anymore. I downloaded and installed Java JDK, the latest version 10.0.1 (64-bit) from the Oracle website. I installed that, made sure that JAVA_HOME was set to C:\Program Files\java\jdk_10.0.1 (or whatever the exact name was). I made sure that I added the "bin" directory to the path. I could run "java -version" as well as "javac -version", but I am getting the same results as before.

I then thought that perhaps the latest JDK was too new, so I downloaded JDK 8u172 in 32-bit flavour. Installed that, did the whole environment variable thing and I am still getting the same issue as before.

What I did notice is that the example output on the fopub Github site shows this:

$ java -version
java version "1.7.0_25"
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (fedora-2.3.10.3.fc17-x86_64)
OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 23.7-b01, mixed mode)

...whereas my Windows output is:

C:\> java -version
java version "1.8.0_172"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_172-b11)
Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 25.172-b11, mixed mode, sharing)

...having said that, the output on my Linux machine is:

$ java -version
java version "1.8.0_171"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_171-b11)
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.171-b11, mixed mode)

So it would seem that on Windows I am somehow running a "Client VM" but on Linux I am running a "Server VM", like in the Linux example output from the Github page.

I went back to the Oracle site but couldn't find an option to download a "Server VM".

Any suggestions are welcome.

Thank you.

Marc.
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Re: asciidoctor-fopub on Windows 10

Andrew Carver
Marc,

On my Windows 10 machine, I'm getting the same result as you from
java -version
So, I've no doubts now you've got everything in place, that you need.

However, my environment variables are set up differently than yours for Java:
-- I don't even have a JAVA_HOME environment variable
-- I do have the following two paths within the string of my PATH environment variable:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Oracle\Java\javapath
C:\ProgramData\Oracle\Java\javapath

It would be interesting to know what Java-paths you've got in your own PATH variable...
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Re: asciidoctor-fopub on Windows 10

Andrew Carver
Also--to my surprise--I have no CLASSPATH variable !!

However, if you do have one, its contents would be interesting as well.
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Re: asciidoctor-fopub on Windows 10

Andrew Carver
Marc,
After finding so many weirdnesses in my environment variables, I decided to make sure my fopub was still working...

IT WASN'T!!!

However,  I got it working again!
by 1) adding this bit to my PATH:
%JAVA_HOME%\bin
and 2) adding these environment variables:
JAVA_HOME : C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jdk1.8.0_144
JDK_HOME  : %JAVA_HOME%
CLASSPATH : .;%JAVA_HOME%\lib;%JAVA_HOME%\jre\lib

So, I am constrained to ask: does your set of environment variables include stuff sorta like that? Especially, is CLASSPATH present and looking correct?
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Re: asciidoctor-fopub on Windows 10

Andrew Carver
If all that's OK, then we must focus on the most interesting bit you got in the output:

Jun 15, 2018 4:05:26 PM org.apache.fop.cli.Main startFOP
SEVERE: Exception
org.apache.fop.apps.FOPException: Don't know what to do with -
        at org.apache.fop.cli.CommandLineOptions.parseUnknownOption(CommandLineOptions.java:737)
        at org.apache.fop.cli.CommandLineOptions.parseOptions(CommandLineOptions.java:399)
        at org.apache.fop.cli.CommandLineOptions.parse(CommandLineOptions.java:167)
        at org.apache.fop.cli.Main.startFOP(Main.java:169)
        at org.apache.fop.cli.Main.main(Main.java:217)

Weirdly, this seems to say that when your fopub script calls FOP (which Dan says happens at the end), its getting a command-line-parsing error, from parsing an unknown option; specifically,
Don't know what to do with -

That's one of those errors that's so weird you suspect it's not the real problem. Yet, it MIGHT be... but it would entail that somehow your fopub.bat file got corrupted--no?
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Re: asciidoctor-fopub on Windows 10

1marc1
Andrew,

Thank you very much for all the hand-holding. I have updated my environment variables to mimic yours, but am still having the same issue.

I then decided to create a really dumbed-down document; I wanted to see if perhaps something in my source document was causing issues. I created a new file called "marc.adoc" with just this as the contents:

== Title

This is a piece of text.


I could successfully create a PDF file from this using fopub. Then I looked at your comment to focus on:

Don't know what to do with -

My file names typically have spaces in them as well as a dash... I renamed my file to "marc - 0.1.adoc" and tried again. You should know that I am typically calling fopub programatically, rather than directly from the command line. This happened:

C:\tmp>fopub "marc - 0.1.xml"
- was unexpected at this time.

It would seem that fopub does not properly recognise the file name with spaces in it. Doing more investigation, I found that when I do things programatically the file name with spaces gets passed properly. I also found that I am referencing a docbook-xls directory (with the -t option) that does not exist. So that doesn't help either. The error message I am getting now is in relation to the fact that the docbook-xsl directory does not exist. However it does not explain the message:

Don't know what to do with -

I have been trying to re-create that error message, but I cannot anymore. Perhaps that error got resolved by me updating my environment variables.

In any case, I have a way forward. Thank you again for your kind assistance!

Marc.
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Re: asciidoctor-fopub on Windows 10

Andrew Carver
Great trouble-shooting!!

For future reference--and because I don't know where else to report this--it seems to be a Windows 10 bug, rather than a fopub.bat bug:

Line 30 of the current fopub.bat file is where the problem occurs:
if "%1" == "-h" GOTO :usage
The quote marks around "%1" (the variable which holds the filepath you gave as the first parameter) are the standard Windows batch-file way of keeping in one piece a variable value that has spaces in it (a space would otherwise indicate the end of the variable's string-value).
But it is running exactly the same as when one omits the quote marks.:
if %1 == "-h" GOTO :usage
I'm clueless why the quotes are not working... and I looked for other ways to fulfill that quote-functionality, but found none...
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Re: asciidoctor-fopub on Windows 10

Andrew Carver
I lied--there seems to be a fix. I'll try to do a pull request for this soon on asciidoctor-fopub...

(I was misreading the signs: all you have to do, it turns out, is save the parameter to a different variable, in a way that removes the quote marks, if any, that were surrounding the parameter:
set first=%~1
Then you just use that variable from then on, in place of %1.)
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Re: asciidoctor-fopub on Windows 10

Andrew Carver
I've submitted that pull request; it's at https://github.com/asciidoctor/asciidoctor-fopub/pull/84.

I tested the code with a source file named
sample - 3.xml

The (few, minor) code-changes are visible at https://github.com/asciidoctor/asciidoctor-fopub/pull/84/files

(This 'fopub.bat' file is the one in the main, 'asciidoctor-fopub' folder.)
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Re: asciidoctor-fopub on Windows 10

mojavelinux
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To move asciidoctor-fopub forward, I've issued a call for maintainers.


-Dan

On Tue, Jun 19, 2018 at 7:33 AM Andrew Carver [via Asciidoctor :: Discussion] <[hidden email]> wrote:
I've submitted that pull request; it's at https://github.com/asciidoctor/asciidoctor-fopub/pull/84.

I tested the code with a source file named
sample - 3.xml

The (few, minor) code-changes are visible at https://github.com/asciidoctor/asciidoctor-fopub/pull/84/files

(This 'fopub.bat' file is the one in the main, 'asciidoctor-fopub' folder.)


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