[postgis-devel] ESRI link to docs

[Kevin Neufeld]

Ah.. No worries.  Yeah, using xsltproc/fo would keep things simple in 
terms of prerequisites.  I don't mind taking this off your plate, but 
it'll be new territory for me.  Do you have any tips on how to convert a 
XSL FO to a PDF?
-- Kevin

Mark Cave-Ayland wrote:
> Kevin Neufeld wrote:
>> Yeah, I've been looking into this pdf thing.  I would like to add the 
>> pdf generation to the autobuild process, but somehow we lost the 
>> ability in the Makefile to generate pdfs using DocBook (at least on 
>> the system that is doing the documentation autobuild at the moment).  
>> I recall Paul once created a PDF using the new style sheet - it was 
>> nice.  I'm waiting to hear back from him on how he did his magic, but 
>> he's away on holidays until tomorrow.
>>
>>
>> -- Kevin
> 
> Ahhh that was probably me. I remember asking about whether to use 
> xsltproc/fo or Jade to produce the PDF, and I think the consensus was to 
> move over to just xsltproc/fo in an attempt to simplify things. I 
> cleaned all the cruft out of SVN trunk with the intention of adding it 
> back in again later, but I obviously forgot :O
> 
> If anyone else would like to stake a claim on this, please do - 
> otherwise I'll add it to my increasing long list of PostGIS TODOs...
> 
> 
> ATB,
> 
> Mark.
>