[xep-support] Re: Troubleshooting DITA environment and output

Thanks, I'll give it a try. I just deleted all the WARNed about links and
was able to produce the PDF file.

> Dan:
>
> There was a version of software in the shop briefly that had a few errors
> in
> processing of page numbers. I see you downloaded around that time (it was
> released August 8).
>
> Please upload the key and download the version that is in the shop now:
>
> http://www.renderx.com/download/updates.html
>
> Test again and see if this is not the issue.
>
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: xep-support-bounces@renderx.com
> [mailto:xep-support-bounces@renderx.com] On Behalf Of dvint@dvint.com
> Sent: Tuesday, August 20, 2013 1:40 PM
> To: xep-support@renderx.com
> Subject: [xep-support] Troubleshooting DITA environment and output
>
> I've been trying to troubleshoot some problems within our content and the
> resulting FO that is generated by the DITA OT and the various formatting
> engines that I have been testing.
>
> Here are the results/issues I've found, question to follow:
>
> - Using the default FOP I have several tables that report problems. What I
> have seen are mostly related to a mismatch in the number of columns in the
> table and the number of colspecs defined. FOP reports this and indicates
> that the auto layout is not supported.
>
> - We switched to a trial of Antenna House and it seems to power through
> the
> table issues and just issues warnings about 40 links that are to non-DITA
> types and wants the format attribute specified. These manifest as
> warning:
> [warning] unresolved internal destination: 'unique_2518_Connect_42_how'
> [warning] unresolved internal destination:
> 'unique_2518_Connect_42_examples'
> AH does produce a PDF file that looks complete.
>
> - When I try the same FO file with XEP we seem to get past the table
> issues
> and get the same warnings as AH, but we get near the end and receive a
> formatting failure:
> (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]
> [error] formatting failed
> [error] java.lang.NullPointerException
>
> Any idea what would be causing this to fail completely? It has been some
> time since I have worked with XEP, but it seems like I'm at the stage
> where
> we are writing out the actual PDF pages. How accurate is the counter vs
> where the actual problem might be? I'm looking at the AH output around
> pages
> 25-30 and I'm only finding xrefs that are producing page numbers, so I
> don't
> think I have any of my link warnings in this area (I'll be checking
> further
> on this), so what else should I be searching for? Any ideas on how to
> debug
> this problem?
>
> I'm using the x4u utility at the moment, quoted error text is from the
> output window. I don't see any errors in the command window that made the
> java call.
>
> This is a 3,177 page document when produced. I had to bump the stack heap
> space to 4096m to get it to this point in the process.
>
>
>
>
>
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Received on Tue Aug 20 14:36:44 2013