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Logs many FOP DEBUG messages

See original GitHub issue

Expected Behavior

Rendering a PDF using DITA-OT 3.1 will not show any FOP logging messages, as described in FOP debug logging (http://www.dita-ot.org/3.1/topics/log-files.html).

Actual Behavior

Logs many FOP DEBUG messages, siginificantly slowing down build time.

For comparison: build time using DITA-OT 2.4.6 was 4-5 times quicker.

Copy of the error message, log file or stack trace

Small excerpt of the logs, notice the small increments in time (since it logs so much):

[...]
      [fop] 14:00:41.561 [main] DEBUG org.apache.fop.pdf.PDFObject - Embedded Tr
ueType/OpenType font
      [fop] 14:00:41.563 [main] DEBUG org.apache.fop.pdf.PDFObject - Writing 263
84 bytes of TTF font data
      [fop] 14:00:41.565 [main] DEBUG org.apache.fop.pdf.PDFObject - Embedded Tr
ueType/OpenType font
[...]

Environment

DITA-OT version: 3.1
Operating system and version: Windows 7 x64
How did you run DITA-OT? "%DITA_HOME%/bin/ant" -f "%DITA_HOME%/build.xml" -Dbasedir="." -Dargs.input="path/to/file.ditamap" -Doutput.dir="pdf" -Dtranstype=pdf
Transformation type: PDF

Issue Analytics

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Created 5 years ago
Comments:5 (3 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

1reaction

jelovirtcommented, Jun 20, 2018

Ok, so the reason is that while Ant is able read the libraries from lib directory, it doesn’t have the config/logback.xml configuration that’s needed to configure the logging levels.

The bin/ant and bin/ant.bat are distributed just for backward compatibility and we really should remove them because they cause problems like these when ran without correct configuration.

Closing this as not a bug, the log configuration works as expected when used with e.g. -lib %DITA_HOME%\config

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c-kunzcommented, Jun 20, 2018

I neither have a global CLASSPATH set nor ANT_HOME. As far as I’m concerned I’m solely relying on running DITA-OT using the Batch script %DITA_HOME%/bin/ant.bat.

I’ve looked into that script, and found the following section, which I can confirm is being called: https://github.com/dita-ot/dita-ot/blob/bfba3b912c35dc58686c3a2b168e41f5b7c82c77/src/main/bin/ant.bat#L137-L138

These are the environment variables in the above command and its values at runtime:

Environment variable	Value
%_JAVACMD%	C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_162\bin\java.exe
%ANT_OPTS%
%ANT_HOME%	C:\Program Files\dita-ot-3.1\bin..
%ANT_ARGS%
%ANT_CMD_LINE_ARGS%	-f “C:\Program Files\dita-ot-3.1/build.xml” -Dbasedir “.” -Dargs.input “path\to\file.ditamap” -Doutput.dir “pdf” -Dtranstype pdf

I hope that helps 😄

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