No worries - I figured out that 

<target basedir="blah">
  <fop something />
</target> 

does the trick.  Basic question, I know.. But I was learning ant.

cheers --alan

On February 2, 2004 03:22 pm, J.Pietschmann wrote:
> S. Alan Ezust wrote:
> > I'm not sure if this is an ant question or a fop question, but I was
> > trying to use the fop custom task, and I want to set the current working
> > directory that fop runs from. How does one do that with fop ant task? Do
> > I set a property somewhere?
>
> I'm notsure what you mean by "working directory". Ant
> has the concept of "project directory", and relative
> pathnames used in tasks are resolved agains this.
> If you mean the base directory FOP uses for resolving
> relative URLs in the external graphics src, I think
> the task has a parameter for it. If not, well, check
> the source whether it sets the base directory to the
> base directory of the currently processed FO document,
> as it actually should.
>
> Now that I think of it, the task should be updated to
> have a parameter for the font base directory as well.
>
> J.Pietschmann
>
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