I assume you are only having trouble with the doxia book code/doxia maven
plugin, which is different from the maven pdf plugin (
http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-pdf-plugin/). I consider the book code
unmaintained and immature, I actually thought of deprecating it if nobody
comes up to give it some care. However, there are a few issues open related
to your problem (are you aware in particular of DOXIA-354, DOXIA-355?), I
would certainly consider patches if they are accompanied by reproducible
test cases...
Cheers,
-Lukas
On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 7:38 PM, Steve Jerman <stjer...@cisco.com> wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> At present Doxia (specifically the PDF plugin) only supports images with
> URLs taken from the classpath or as absolute URLs. This doesn¹t affect
> normal site generation since that just passes through the URL without
> resolution and so everything works OK.
>
> However, the PDF plugin tries to resolve the path names to images and with
> a
> normal maven site/resources/images layout that that won¹t work. The reason
> is that the Œbase¹ for resolving relative file paths URLs is wrong by
> default.
>
> If I use the following pom config:
>
> <plugin>
> <groupId>org.apache.maven.doxia</groupId>
> <artifactId>doxia-maven-plugin</artifactId>
> <version>1.1.3-SNAPSHOT</version>
> <executions>
> <execution>
> <phase>site</phase>
> <goals>
> <goal>render-books</goal>
> </goals>
> </execution>
> </executions>
> <configuration>
>
> <generatedDocs>${project.build.directory}/site</generatedDocs>
> <books>
> <book>
> <directory>src/site/apt</directory>
> <descriptor>src/site/dev-guide.xml</descriptor>
> <formats>
> <format>
> <id>pdf</id>
> </format>
> </formats>
> </book>
> </books>
> </configuration>
> </plugin>
>
> And change the location that Œitext.basedir¹ is set to (in 3-4 places...).
>
> org.apache.maven.doxia.book.services.renderer.AbstractITextBookRenderer
> org.apache.maven.doxia.docrenderer.itext.AbstractITextRender
> org.apache.maven.doxia.docrenderer.pdf.itext.ITextPdfRenderer
> org.apache.maven.doxia.module.itext.ITextSink
>
> To..
> System.setProperty( "itext.basedir",
> bookFile.getParentFile().getParentFile().getAbsolutePath() );
>
> So that it looks two levels up rather than one level up... Everything seems
> to work OK.
>
> What the changes do are:
>
> Generate the PDF to the site directory rather than it¹s own directory.
> Create the site before generating PDFs .. note this puts the images in a
> Œknown place¹ relative to the PDF output.
> Set up the base for resolution to be consistent for both html and pdf
> generation.
>
> So... having said that, I¹m wondering what do to do next..
>
> This change isn¹t entirely backwards compatible (but maybe someone can
> figure out a way to make it so). I will create a patch for the change but
> am
> not sure if it is worth doing if it isn¹t backwards compatible.. The
> alternative is to keep a private version...
>
> I know that a colleague of mine raised a Jira (
> http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/DOXIA-356) on this subject.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> Steve
>
