Re: [Boost-docs] Generating PDF documentation failure with FOP 1.0

Subject: Re: [Boost-docs] Generating PDF documentation failure with FOP 1.0
From: Edward Diener (eldiener_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-01-25 15:00:21

On 1/25/2011 4:06 AM, John Maddock wrote:
>> Is FOP 1.0 just broke ? I can try Render instead but it was mentioned
>> that Render tags each PDF page with its own signature so I wanted to
>> try straight FOP first. Even when I subsequently added -Xmx500m to the
>> fop.bat command line that invokes java, the result was the same.
>
> Sigh... I've never had much joy with FOP... and that error message is so
> inscrutable you're going to have to ask the FOP developers what gives
> I'm afraid :(

I tried RenderX and it worked mostly fine and produce PDF output. I did get:

   (generate [output-format 
pdf][1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36][37][38][39][40][41][42][43][44][45][46]
     [error] SVG element 'radialGradient' ignored: 
java.lang.ClassCastException: 
com.renderx.graphics.vector.Gradient$LinearGradient cannot be cast to 
com.renderx.graphics.vector.Gradient$RadialGradient
     [error] SVG element 'radialGradient' ignored: 
java.lang.ClassCastException: 
com.renderx.graphics.vector.Gradient$LinearGradient cannot be cast to 
com.renderx.graphics.vector.Gradient$RadialGradient
     [error] SVG element 'radialGradient' ignored: 
java.lang.ClassCastException: 
com.renderx.graphics.vector.Gradient$LinearGradient cannot be cast to 
com.renderx.graphics.vector.Gradient$RadialGradient
     [error] SVG element 'radialGradient' ignored: 
java.lang.ClassCastException: 
com.renderx.graphics.vector.Gradient$LinearGradient cannot be cast to 
com.renderx.graphics.vector.Gradient$RadialGradient

but the PDF output occurred nonetheless.