[Archivesspace_Users_Group] Export to PDF Failing

[Christine Di Bella]

Hi Danielle and Alex,

Do you know what type of server your ArchivesSpace is on, Danielle? There’s a known issue with PDFs when ArchivesSpace is installed on a Windows server (see https://archivesspace.atlassian.net/browse/ANW-267). The output you’re seeing seems to resemble what gets produced in those cases. (This comes up when the server itself is Windows, not when you’re just working with the staff interface on a Windows machine.)

Christine

Christine Di Bella
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From: archivesspace_users_group-bounces at lyralists.lyrasis.org <archivesspace_users_group-bounces at lyralists.lyrasis.org> On Behalf Of Danielle Butler
Sent: Monday, July 23, 2018 3:25 PM
To: Archivesspace Users Group <archivesspace_users_group at lyralists.lyrasis.org>
Subject: Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] Export to PDF Failing

Yes, it is definitely something! I did see that, and wasn’t sure if a resolution had been found or not.

We are running 2.3.2.

I’ve attached the unedited EAD.

Thanks for your help,
Danielle

From: archivesspace_users_group-bounces at lyralists.lyrasis.org<mailto:archivesspace_users_group-bounces at lyralists.lyrasis.org> [mailto:archivesspace_users_group-bounces at lyralists.lyrasis.org] On Behalf Of Alexander Duryee
Sent: Monday, July 23, 2018 2:22 PM
To: Archivesspace Users Group <archivesspace_users_group at lyralists.lyrasis.org<mailto:archivesspace_users_group at lyralists.lyrasis.org>>
Subject: Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] Export to PDF Failing

Danielle,

Wow!  Thanks for sending this along - that's quite the PDF.

Which version of ASpace are you using?  Going through the listserv archives, some other folk were having similar issues on recent (2.x.x) versions of ASpace.

If you can send me the EAD from ASpace (as-exported, pre-tweaks), I'll be happy to take a look at it and walk it through the PDF generation processes.  ASpace generates its PDF finding aids by generating and transforming the EAD XML, so the EAD is usually the first place to look when the PDF is misbehaving.

Thanks,
--Alex

On Mon, Jul 23, 2018 at 2:48 PM, Danielle Butler <dbutler at cals.org<mailto:dbutler at cals.org>> wrote:
Hello Alex,

I’m not getting any errors from the background job, but the PDF it creates is malformed and missing most of the components. I’ve attached a screenshot of the background job results and the PDF it generated.

And the EAD I get from export has to have some small tweaks made, but it validates and works in our XSL stylesheet.

From: archivesspace_users_group-bounces at lyralists.lyrasis.org<mailto:archivesspace_users_group-bounces at lyralists.lyrasis.org> [mailto:archivesspace_users_group-bounces at lyralists.lyrasis.org<mailto:archivesspace_users_group-bounces at lyralists.lyrasis.org>] On Behalf Of Alexander Duryee
Sent: Monday, July 23, 2018 1:40 PM
To: Archivesspace Users Group <archivesspace_users_group at lyralists.lyrasis.org<mailto:archivesspace_users_group at lyralists.lyrasis.org>>
Subject: Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] Export to PDF Failing

Danielle,

Is the PDF exporter throwing an error within ASpace, or is it completing the export but returning a malformed PDF?  Could you provide an example of how it's failing?

When you export EAD, does it validate against the EAD schema / as well-formed XML?

Thanks,
--Alex


On Mon, Jul 23, 2018 at 1:35 PM, Danielle Butler <dbutler at cals.org<mailto:dbutler at cals.org>> wrote:
We recently migrated all of our data from Toolkit to ASpace. Everything seems to have migrated fine, and we get clean EAD on export, but I cannot get the print to PDF function to give me anything functional.

I looked through the archives and didn’t find an answer to this issue.

Thanks,

Danielle Butler, CA | Archivist
Butler Center for Arkansas Studies | Central Arkansas Library System
www.butlercenter.org<http://www.butlercenter.org/>
100 Rock Street
Little Rock, AR 72201
501-320-5724


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