[Archivesspace_Users_Group] Export to PDF Failing

Mon Jul 23 17:11:08 EDT 2018

I would guess it has to be a failure in the fop processor to produce such a mangled PDF. 

You might try cd-ing to archivesspace/lib/ directory and running it manually with something like this command:
(not sure if it needs an adjustment for windows)

	java -jar fop.jar  fo.xml -pdf fo.pdf 

using this as input ( I’ve run your EAD xml thru the first stage using archivesspace/stylesheets/as-ead-pdf.xsl & saxon )
and see if you get any helpful or interesting error messages. 

And if you want to try generating that fo.xml yourself, you can try something like this, relative to the same lib directory, 
and replacing  EAD.XML with actual path. 

java  -jar ../gems/gems/saxon-xslt-0.8.2.1-java/vendor/saxonica/saxon9he.jar  -xsl:../stylesheets/as-ead-pdf -s:EAD.XML  -o:fo.xml 

> On Jul 23, 2018, at 3:25 PM, Danielle Butler <dbutler at cals.org> wrote:
> 
> 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 <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/>
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