[postgis-devel] Re: [postgis-users] PDF version of manual?

[Paul Ramsey]

Generating the pdf is a sufficiently specialized operation that it
doesn't matter if it depends on FOP. Once kevin gets it working, he
can set it up to auto-run on the rackmount and then noone else will
care :)

P

On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 8:59 AM, Mark Cave-Ayland
<mark.cave-ayland at siriusit.co.uk> wrote:
> Kevin Neufeld wrote:
>>
>> Great.  Thanx Mark.
>>
>> Curious. <inlinegraphic> is not a DocBook standard?
>
> Ah. I probably should have been a bit clearer in my original email - not the
> <inlinegraphic> element itself, just the "class" attribute which had been
> added to the element within the PostGIS documentation. (Although as you
> quite rightly point out, it is deprecated in v5).
>
>> You mentioned you tried xmlroff to generate the pdf but it didn't fair
>> well.  Previously, Paul generated his nice version that closely matches the
>> new html stylesheet using XSL-FO and Adobe Fop.  I haven't been able to
>> reproduce that yet though.
>
> I did have a quick look at FOP, but then got cold feet when I realised I'd
> have to install a load of Java packages at the same time. Hence the quick
> fix of putting the OpenJade system back into place, so at least there is
> something to work with until someone can come up with something better (if
> applicable) ;)
>
>
> ATB,
>
> Mark.
>
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