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The code below evaluated successfully but ~/Downloads/foo.png is empty. A look at the downloads folder shows that no file has been generated. What went wrong? 

#+begin_src ditaa :file ~/Downloads/foo.png

    +--------+   +-------+    +-------+
    |        | --+ ditaa +--> |       |
    |  Text  |   +-------+    |diagram|
    |Document|   |!magic!|    |       |
    |     {d}|   |       |    |       |
    +---+----+   +-------+    +-------+
        :                         ^
        |       Lots of work      |
        +-------------------------+
#+end_src

#+results:
[[file:~/Downloads/foo.png]]

The same diagram, when ditaa is called from terminal, produces an output in 6 secs. 

ditaa diagram.txt sample.png

ditaa version 0.11, Copyright (C) 2004--2017  Efstathios (Stathis) Sideris

Running with options:
Reading file: diagram.txt
Rendering to file: sample.png
Done in 6sec

ORG version

enter image description here

*Messages*

executing Ditaa code block...
java -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 -jar /usr/local/bin/ditaa  /var/folders/rw/rpr418x91h13ysbc6k7fzj240000gn/T/babel-6iUieC/ditaa-lD3wxu /Users/satibodhi/Downloads/foo.png
Error: Invalid or corrupt jarfile /usr/local/bin/ditaa
Code block evaluation complete.

Seems like this has something to do with homebrew aliasing java -jar ditaa.jar to ditaa. 

$ ditaa
usage: java -jar ditaa.jar <INPFILE> [OUTFILE] [-A] [-b <BACKGROUND>] [-d]
       [-E] [-e <ENCODING>] [-h] [--help] [-o] [-r] [-S] [-s <SCALE>]
       [--svg] [--svg-font-url <FONT>] [-T] [-t <TABS>] [-v] [-W]
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  • FWIW, it works fine for me with Org mode version 9.2.3 (release_9.2.3-387-ga41e99). Edit the question and add the version of org-mode (M-x org-version will give you that information). Does your *Messages* buffer show anything suspicious?
    – NickD
    Commented Jun 21, 2019 at 2:51
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    You can customize org-ditaa-jar-path to point to the jar that is working. What does /usr/local/bin/ditaa look like?
    – NickD
    Commented Jun 21, 2019 at 13:10
  • It's a symlink to the ../Cellar path. $ ls -la ditaa lrwxr-xr-x 1 satibodhi admin 32 Jun 21 04:41 ditaa -> ../Cellar/ditaa/0.11.0/bin/ditaa. This is not a jar file either.
    – Sati
    Commented Jun 21, 2019 at 14:14
  • /var/folders/rw/rpr418x91h13ysbc6k7fzj240000gn/T/babel-6iUieC/ditaa-lD3wxu This portion of the executed code seems weird to me.
    – Sati
    Commented Jun 21, 2019 at 14:37
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    Of course there is, otherwise the alias would not work.
    – NickD
    Commented Jun 21, 2019 at 16:34

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Solved:

Opening the above ditaa file in Emacs showed the following bash script:

#!/bin/bash
exec java  -jar /usr/local/Cellar/ditaa/0.11.0/libexec/ditaa-0.11.0-standalone.jar "$@"

The above code was evaluated successfully after setting org-ditaa-jar-path to /usr/local/Cellar/ditaa/0.11.0/libexec/ditaa-0.11.0-standalone.jar.

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  • This saved me some debugging! Cheers!
    – Karthik Nayak
    Commented Apr 14, 2020 at 9:46

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