I found one way to fix this manually: In the plantuml.jar, add to the manifest (META-INF/MANIFEST.MF) the following line:
Class-Path: /usr/share/java/batik-rasterizer.jar /usr/share/java/batik- transcoder.jar /usr/share/java/fop.jar With this line, export to pdf works for me without specifying the classpath manually. For the Debian build script, this should probably be included, either manually or somewhere in the Ant building specifications. Additionally, maybe the packages providing these jars should be added as recommended dependencies: libfop-java (provides /usr/share/java/fop.jar) libbatik-java (provides batik-rasterizer.jar and batik-transcoder.jar, but is already a dependency for libfop-java, so the former should be enough) -- Max-Planck-Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization Research Group Biomedical Physics Am Fassberg 17 D-37077 Goettingen (+49) 551 5176 373 You can obtain my public key 0xF197B128 from all keyservers, e.g. pgp.mit.edu Fingerprint: 9698 BDD4 71CC 1274 B7E2 2049 1EDD 012D F197 B128
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