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Error: Unable to generate the PDF

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I’ve just installed asciidoctor-pdf.js on Linux. When I compile a adoc file I get the error message

Unable to generate the PDF - Error: ReferenceError: URL is not defined

Here is the version information of my installation

Asciidoctor PDF 1.0.0-alpha.7 using Asciidoctor.js 2.1.1 (Asciidoctor 2.0.10) [https://asciidoctor.org]
Runtime Environment (node v8.17.0 on linux)
CLI version 3.2.0

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Created 4 years ago
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tobiasdcommented, Mar 6, 2020

See above I had some really old version installed, I use literally one other tool based on node on my system, that I now remember had problems updating some time ago. After updating the APT sources to node 12 PDF generation is now working.

Asciidoctor PDF 1.0.0-alpha.7 using Asciidoctor.js 2.1.1 (Asciidoctor 2.0.10) [https://asciidoctor.org]
Runtime Environment (node v12.16.1 on linux)
CLI version 3.2.0

Thank you very much for your help! And luckily the other tool fixed their problems with updating node as well phew

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Mogzttercommented, Mar 6, 2020

What version of Node.js are you using? I’m using URL, it might only be available in Node > 10, I was not aware of that. Could you try updating to the latest LTS?

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