Unable to use the library

[Ravindra Tempalli]

I am suing this library to convert markdown to html.

    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.bitbucket.leito</groupId>
        <artifactId>universal-document-converter</artifactId>
        <version>1.1.0</version>
    </dependency>

However, when I run the following lines ...

            new DocumentConverter()
                .fromFile(new File("/Users/myuser/MANUAL.txt"), InputFormat.MARKDOWN)
                .toFile(new File("/Users/myuser/MANUAL.HTML"), OutputFormat.HTML).addOption("-o") // optional

Eclipse throw the following Exception:

Cannot run program "pandoc": error=2, No such file or directory

I have installed pandoc using homebrew, I am able to run pandoc from the Terminal (command line) and get exact results but not from Eclipse. I see that pandoc is installed at /usr/local/bin/pandoc on my local machine.

Anyone using this library complained this before? How do I solve this problem?

[Ravindra Tempalli]

May not be an issue with the library but I am unable to use it, appreciate your help.

[Jose Jimenez]

I think that means that pandoc can not find your file:

Example:

pandoc: asdfasdf.txt: openBinaryFile: does not exist (No such file or directory)

[Piotr Stawiński]

I had same problem under linux with pandoc on the path. Changing

String.format("\"%s\" \"%s\" --from=%s --to=%s %s --output=\"%s\"", settings.getPandocExec(), fromFile.getAbsoluteFile(), fromFormat, toFormat, extraOptions, toFile.getAbsoluteFile());

into

String.format("%s \"%s\" --from=%s --to=%s %s --output=\"%s\"", settings.getPandocExec(), fromFile.getAbsoluteFile(), fromFormat, toFormat, extraOptions, toFile.getAbsoluteFile());

in the DocumentConverter was the solution.

[Ernst de Haan]

Had the same problem, so I abandoned the library and instead just invoking pandoc directly.

Note that Java 7 now offers a ProcessBuilder that allows you to specify the arguments one by one. An added benefit is that you can easily redirect the pandoc output to stdout/stderr:

ProcessBuilder processBuilder = new ProcessBuilder("pandoc",
            "--from", "html",
            "--to", "asciidoc",
            "--output", adocFilePath,
            htmlFile.getAbsolutePath());
        processBuilder.redirectOutput(INHERIT);
        processBuilder.redirectError(INHERIT);