Problem-creating .fo file to PDF

[umasankar puranam]

hi,

When I am trying to create a PDF from .fo file issuing the command

java org.apache.fop.apps.Fop everything.fo everything.pdf

I am getting the following error in the console. If anybody can solve my problem, please....

[INFO] Using org.apache.xerces.parsers.SAXParser as SAX2 Parser
[INFO] FOP 0.20.5
[INFO] Using org.apache.xerces.parsers.SAXParser as SAX2 Parser
[INFO] building formatting object tree
[INFO] setting up fonts
[ERROR] Invalid byte 2 of 4-byte UTF-8 sequence.

[Manuel Moons]

Maybe you should play with your encoding in you .fo file. Try to change it to UTF-16 or ISO 8859-1. You have a problem with some character in that file.

[umasankar puranam]

hi Manuel Moons,

Still i am getting the error. When i tried with UTF-16 the errors are as follows:-

[INFO] Using org.apache.xerces.parsers.SAXParser as SAX2 Parser
[INFO] FOP 0.20.5
[INFO] Using org.apache.xerces.parsers.SAXParser as SAX2 Parser
[INFO] building formatting object tree
[INFO] setting up fonts
[Fatal Error] Example.fo:1:40: Content is not allowed in prolog.
[ERROR] Content is not allowed in prolog.

and when using ISO 8859-1 I am getting the error:-

[INFO] Using org.apache.xerces.parsers.SAXParser as SAX2 Parser
[INFO] FOP 0.20.5
[INFO] Using org.apache.xerces.parsers.SAXParser as SAX2 Parser
[INFO] building formatting object tree
[INFO] setting up fonts
[Fatal Error] Example.fo:1:44: Invalid encoding name "ISO 8859-1".
[ERROR] Invalid encoding name "ISO 8859-1".

[Manuel Moons]

Oh the last error I can explain, it should be : ISO-8859-1

Maybe you can try that. If that does not work. Show us a small xml (fo) example where you get that error.

[William Brogden]

[Fatal Error] Example.fo:1:40: Content is not allowed in prolog.

I would look very carefully at that first line - preferably with a programmers editor that can display hex values.
How is the .fo file being created?
Bill

[Ilja Preuss]

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