[Refdb-users] Setting up 'jfor' for rtf output

[David N. <dav...@bi...>]

Hi all,

When using refdb makefile to convert DocBook XML --> RTF, the refdb 
scripts (actually refdbxml) rely on 'jfor'.

jfor converts FO to RTF and is available from 
http://sourceforge.net/projects/jfor.

The documentation can optimistically be called 'minimal'.

I included the jfor.jar and xerces.jar files in my classpath, but got 
the following error:

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: 
org/apache/log/Hierarchy
        at org.jfor.jfor.main.CmdLineConverter.<clinit>(Unknown Source)
        at ch.codeconsult.jfor.main.CmdLineConverter.main(Unknown Source)

It seems recent versions of jfor now rely on Apache's logkit.jar.  It 
may already be on your system if you've installed apache.  For Debian 
users, it's included in the 'liblogkit-java' package.  I'm not sure 
about RPM-based systems.  If you can't grab a package, the project 
homepage (http://avalon.apache.org/logkit/) has a link to a download page.

So, jfor relies on jfor, xerces and logkit.

My classpath looks like: 
/usr/share/java/jfor.jar:/usr/share/java/xerces.jar:/usr/share/java/logkit.jar

Regards,
David.