[publican-list] Building local PDF

[Misty Stanley-Jones]

I had this error when I didn't have the JDK installed. Make sure you have it installed and JAVA_HOME is set properly. :)

----- "Lana Brindley" <lbrindle at redhat.com> wrote:

> From: "Lana Brindley" <lbrindle at redhat.com>
> To: "publican" <publican-list at redhat.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, June 9, 2010 4:25:40 PM GMT +10:00 Brisbane
> Subject: [publican-list] Building local PDF
>
> When I try to build a pdf locally using:
> $ publican build --lang=en-US --format=pdf
> 
> Publican appears to work correctly until reporting an error:
> Jun 9, 2010 4:22:38 p.m. org.apache.fop.cli.Main startFOP
> SEVERE: Exception
> java.lang.NullPointerException
>     at
> org.apache.fop.cli.InputHandler.transformTo(InputHandler.java:217)
>     at
> org.apache.fop.cli.InputHandler.renderTo(InputHandler.java:125)
>     at org.apache.fop.cli.Main.startFOP(Main.java:166)
>     at org.apache.fop.cli.Main.main(Main.java:196)
> 
> Upon checking the PDF folder, it's empty.
> 
> What am I doing wrong?
> 
> L
> 
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