Re: [Orgmode] Export ascii-images using ditaa when targeting HTML?

[Eric Schulte]

Sebastian Rose <address@hidden> writes:

> Carsten Dominik <address@hidden> writes:
>>>  ditaa has no option to adjust the background color, but if I use ditaa
>>>  from the commandline, the background color is white.
>>
>> For what it is worth, I have no problems with the background, it is white all
>> right.  Maybe it is transparent?
>
>
> No, it is black indeed. But I found out, what it is.
>
>
> This line
>
>     (shell-command (concat "java -jar " ditaa-jar-path " " args " " data-file 
> " " out-file))
>
> calls another java than this command line:
>
>      java -jar ~/bin/ditaar.jar /tmp/org-ditaa5607fgk
>
>

Just to make sure, did you notice the command line option -S which
controls the background color?

,----[java -jar ditaa0_6b.jar -h]
| 
| DiTAA version 0.6b, Copyright (C) 2004 Efstathios Sideris
| 
| Using options: 
| html: true
| Error: Please provide the input file filename
| Usage:
|       java -jar text2image.jar
| 
|       [{-o,--overwrite}]
|       [{-d,--debug}]
|       [{-t,--tabs}]
| 
|       [{-S,--no-shadows}]
|       [{-A,--no-antialias}]
|       [{-s,--scale} scale]
|       [{-r,--round-corners}]
|       [{-E,--no-separation}]
| 
|       [{-h,--html}]
| 
|       <inpfile> [outfile]
| 
| Note: do not group options like -rES. This is going to be fixed.
`----

-- Eric

> >
> Yes, that seems to be the reason:
>
>     /usr/bin/java is that free GNU java stuff that comes with Debian
>     (some packages depend on it). It's deadslow and makes the black
>     background.
>
>
>     The commandline calls:
>
>     sh$ which java
>     /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/bin/java
>
>     It's fast and makes the background white :-)
>
>
>
> `shell-command' seems to call /usr/bin/java instead of regarding my $PATH
>
> $sh echo $PATH
> /home/sebastian/bin/ext/maven/bin:/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/bin:/home/sebastian/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin
>
>
> Funny enough, the problem remains, if I start emacs from the bash
> prompt. Seems that `shell-command' searches the standard directories
> without regarding the environment?
>
>
>
> Don't know yet, if this is related to the problem:
>
>   Debian/Java - it's a stupid combination really. I installed the SUN java
>   stuff using apt-get - it's odd:
>
>   sh$ ls -l /etc/alternatives/java
>   lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 34 28. Okt 20:35 /etc/alternatives/java -> 
> /usr/lib/jvm/java-gcj/jre/bin/java
>
>   Don't believe adjusting this helps, but I'd have to adjust all the
>   other /etc/alternatives/java* stuff by hand anyway. Maybe I should
>   file a bug report to Debian.
>
>
>
>
> Adjusting the java path in org-exp-blocks directly fixes it.
>
>
>
> Thanks,