Images missing from DITAVal output (action="flag")

[lopresti]

I'm trying to add images to flagged content. These images appear in HTML output, but not in PDF.

Here is the markup from my DITAVal file:

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<val>

        <prop action="flag" att="platform" val="win" backcolor="yellow">

        <startflag imageref="microsoft.jpg">

            <alt-text>Windows</alt-text>

        </startflag>

    </prop>

</val>

Here's the error I get in processing:

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[fop] [ERROR] Image not found. URI: file:/private/var/folders/1g/9n6smx8d1g7gngs6rrr0wpf40000gq/T/OxygenXMLTemp/ditaTemporaryOutputDir-1529690744365/t1/t2/t3/t4/t5/../product_name/microsoft.jpg. (See position 10:-1)

Is this maybe a toolkit bug? I'm using DITA OT 2.3.3.

Thanks.

[Radu]

Hi Kate,

I can also reproduce the problem using the DITA OT 2.5.4 bundled with Oxygen 20.1. The problem seems somehow related to using the "fix.external.references" parameter. I can no longer reproduce the problem using DITA OT 3.1, there is an Oxygen add-on for it:

https://github.com/oxygenxml/dita-ot-3x-plugin.

Maybe as a possible workaround, just for the PDF publishing in the DITAVAL you could have an absolute reference to the image, like:

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<val>

    <prop action="flag" att="platform" val="win" backcolor="yellow">

        <startflag imageref="file:/C:/path/to/my/project/Salvia.jpg">

            <alt-text>Windows</alt-text>

        </startflag>

    </prop>

</val>

Regards,
Radu

[lopresti]

Thanks, Radu. The workaround was just what I needed. The image appears now.