John, > On Sep 14, 2018, at 10:11 AM, John Ralls <jra...@ceridwen.us> wrote: > > > >> On Sep 14, 2018, at 4:49 AM, D via gnucash-devel <gnucash-devel@gnucash.org> >> wrote: >> >> That seems odd; the install page at Apache says it's a java app, and >> installation consists of copying jar files. No mention of /usr/bin... >> >> Unfortunately, MacOS is different. Maybe John has advice for me... > > I build the docs for distribution on a Linux VM so I’ve never installed FOP > directly on MacOS. > > The catch is the invocation of FOP: The instructions on the page you gave > just copy jars to ~/Library/Java/Extensions and say to invoke it with > java java org.apache.fop.cli.Main -fo > pdf.make wants to just say “fop” so you need a to arrange for that with a > two-line shell file > #!/bin/sh > java java org.apache.fop.cli.Main -fo $@ > named fop and somewhere on the path. > > Regards, > John Ralls
Thanks for the info. I went the Brew route, which put the executable in /usr/local/bin for me. David _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
