SvgViewer not working on OS X?
Anyone able to use the SVG viewer plugin on Mac OS X? When I try to view the image for an SVG file, I get the following error message:
I assume the name "Users" is coming from the full path to the SVG file I am trying to view (/Users/tdean/...)
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not sure I got this exception - but I was never able to view a PNG with it.
I've put a version of SvgViewer on the wiki at http://www.intellij.org/twiki/pub/Main/SvgViewer/SvgViewer.jar with some debug logging.
When you have time could you...
1. download it into your ~/.IntelliJIdea/config/plugins/SvgViewer/lib directory,
2. update your /idea/bin/log.xml to contain:
3. restart idea,
4. open an svg document (giving you the error),
5. exit idea and
6. edit the idea system log (~/.IntelliJIdea/system/log/idea.log) looking for
7. post the result here (or email me)
OK, here's the results I see in the log file:
hmmmm...this is weird. com.intellij.openapi.vfs.VirtualFile.getURL() on Windows returns
...but on OS X returns
...and in any case Apache Batik expects
I've done another hack to keep Batik happy:
http://www.intellij.org/twiki/pub/Main/SvgViewer/SvgViewer.jar
Does this fix it?
I've done some more testing (on Win2000). In summary...
On Win2000, VirtualFile.getUrl() returns:
...where d: is a drive letter. According to http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1738.html there should be a hostname or null where the drive letter is.
On OS X it returns
...which RFC1738 says is the correct format for a file URL. A null hostname means "localhost".
...Apache Batik accepts either the non-standard:
or the RFC1738 format (with a null hostname):
or this RFC1738-compliant format (on Win2000):
but chokes (trying to connect to hostname "d:") on:
and (trying to connect to hostname "foo"):
I've hacked SvgViewer to pass RFC1738 form URLs unchanged to Batik, and to convert "file://d:/foo/bar" to "file:///d:/foo/bar".
That seems to have fixed it - Thanks!