On Wed, 2007-11-28 at 01:53 -0500, Thomas Fitzsimmons wrote:
Hi Karsten,
Good news: we've finally got Apache FOP and all its dependencies in Rawhide. We're testing building the GNOME HIG 2.0 document now -- there are some wrinkles to iron out, but I wanted to let you know right away in case you wanted to run some smoke tests of your own.
Unleash the flying monkeys!
I'll see about getting a Rawhide instance going in the next few weeks for testing. Hereby letting all others interested in quality PDF production from DocBook, here's a way to lend a hand - test the new FOP build.
- Karsten
Tom email message attachment (fop built.eml)
-------- Forwarded Message -------- From: Lillian Angel langel@redhat.com To: Thomas Fitzsimmons fitzsim@redhat.com Subject: fop built Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2007 17:51:16 -0500
Karsten Wade wrote:
On Wed, 2007-11-28 at 01:53 -0500, Thomas Fitzsimmons wrote:
Hi Karsten,
Good news: we've finally got Apache FOP and all its dependencies in Rawhide. We're testing building the GNOME HIG 2.0 document now -- there are some wrinkles to iron out, but I wanted to let you know right away in case you wanted to run some smoke tests of your own.
Unleash the flying monkeys!
I'll see about getting a Rawhide instance going in the next few weeks for testing. Hereby letting all others interested in quality PDF production from DocBook, here's a way to lend a hand - test the new FOP build.
I would appreciate any instructions on how to do this.
Rahul
On Nov 29, 2007 2:15 PM, Rahul Sundaram sundaram@fedoraproject.org wrote:
Karsten Wade wrote:
On Wed, 2007-11-28 at 01:53 -0500, Thomas Fitzsimmons wrote:
Hi Karsten,
Good news: we've finally got Apache FOP and all its dependencies in Rawhide. We're testing building the GNOME HIG 2.0 document now -- there are some wrinkles to iron out, but I wanted to let you know right away in case you wanted to run some smoke tests of your own.
Unleash the flying monkeys!
I'll see about getting a Rawhide instance going in the next few weeks for testing. Hereby letting all others interested in quality PDF production from DocBook, here's a way to lend a hand - test the new FOP build.
I would appreciate any instructions on how to do this.
This is great news...
Let me know when it's ready for testing.
John Babich Volunteer, Fedora Docs Project
On Thu, 2007-11-29 at 16:00 +0300, John Babich wrote:
On Nov 29, 2007 2:15 PM, Rahul Sundaram sundaram@fedoraproject.org wrote:
Karsten Wade wrote:
On Wed, 2007-11-28 at 01:53 -0500, Thomas Fitzsimmons wrote:
Hi Karsten,
Good news: we've finally got Apache FOP and all its dependencies in Rawhide. We're testing building the GNOME HIG 2.0 document now -- there are some wrinkles to iron out, but I wanted to let you know right away in case you wanted to run some smoke tests of your own.
Unleash the flying monkeys!
I'll see about getting a Rawhide instance going in the next few weeks for testing. Hereby letting all others interested in quality PDF production from DocBook, here's a way to lend a hand - test the new FOP build.
I would appreciate any instructions on how to do this.
This is great news...
Let me know when it's ready for testing.
It's in the repos now, so you should be able to just set up a Rawhide box (virt or otherwise), install the "fop" package, and go to town.
On Thu, 2007-11-29 at 11:24 -0500, Paul W. Frields wrote:
It's in the repos now, so you should be able to just set up a Rawhide box (virt or otherwise), install the "fop" package, and go to town.
OK, here's the moment where we have to acknowledge the manual situation here. We can't use our current toolchain as it stands because 'xmlto' doesn't support FOP.
I've just requested that Tommy's way old patch be renewed and applied:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=147472
That would allow us to use our toolchain with rawhide to test the full stack.
Otherwise, we need to process manually, and, uh ... I'm forgetting how to do that. Anyone know how, off-hand?
- Karsten
Karsten Wade wrote:
On Thu, 2007-11-29 at 11:24 -0500, Paul W. Frields wrote:
It's in the repos now, so you should be able to just set up a Rawhide box (virt or otherwise), install the "fop" package, and go to town.
OK, here's the moment where we have to acknowledge the manual situation here. We can't use our current toolchain as it stands because 'xmlto' doesn't support FOP.
I've just requested that Tommy's way old patch be renewed and applied:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=147472
That would allow us to use our toolchain with rawhide to test the full stack.
Otherwise, we need to process manually, and, uh ... I'm forgetting how to do that. Anyone know how, off-hand?
- Karsten
The basics are:
xmlto fo Book.xml fop -fo Book.fo -pdf Book.pdf
Limitations of this approach:
xmlto doesn't allow you to pass useful parameters to xsltproc The default DocBook style sheets produce ugly PDFs
Cheers, Jeff.
On Fri, 2007-11-30 at 11:12 +1000, Jeff Fearn wrote:
Karsten Wade wrote:
On Thu, 2007-11-29 at 11:24 -0500, Paul W. Frields wrote:
It's in the repos now, so you should be able to just set up a Rawhide box (virt or otherwise), install the "fop" package, and go to town.
OK, here's the moment where we have to acknowledge the manual situation here. We can't use our current toolchain as it stands because 'xmlto' doesn't support FOP.
I've just requested that Tommy's way old patch be renewed and applied:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=147472
That would allow us to use our toolchain with rawhide to test the full stack.
Otherwise, we need to process manually, and, uh ... I'm forgetting how to do that. Anyone know how, off-hand?
- Karsten
The basics are:
xmlto fo Book.xml fop -fo Book.fo -pdf Book.pdf
Limitations of this approach:
xmlto doesn't allow you to pass useful parameters to xsltproc The default DocBook style sheets produce ugly PDFs
ISTR using the xmlto "-m" option to provide some parameter tweaking via XSL. It's certainly not as simple as using the xsltproc "--param" or "--stringparam" options, but it might get one by in a pinch.
Uttered "Paul W. Frields" stickster@gmail.com, spake thus:
On Fri, 2007-11-30 at 11:12 +1000, Jeff Fearn wrote:
Karsten Wade wrote:
On Thu, 2007-11-29 at 11:24 -0500, Paul W. Frields wrote:
It's in the repos now, so you should be able to just set up a Rawhide box (virt or otherwise), install the "fop" package, and go to town.
I've just requested that Tommy's way old patch be renewed and applied: That would allow us to use our toolchain with rawhide to test the full stack. Otherwise, we need to process manually, and, uh ... I'm forgetting how to do that. Anyone know how, off-hand?
The basics are: xmlto fo Book.xml fop -fo Book.fo -pdf Book.pdf Limitations of this approach: xmlto doesn't allow you to pass useful parameters to xsltproc The default DocBook style sheets produce ugly PDFs
ISTR using the xmlto "-m" option to provide some parameter tweaking via XSL. It's certainly not as simple as using the xsltproc "--param" or "--stringparam" options, but it might get one by in a pinch.
You should be able to use the ${XSLT_PROCESSOR} environment variable to invoke a short shell script that does what you want.
Cheers
On Wed, 2007-11-28 at 17:46 -0800, Karsten Wade wrote:
Unleash the flying monkeys!
I'll see about getting a Rawhide instance going in the next few weeks for testing. Hereby letting all others interested in quality PDF production from DocBook, here's a way to lend a hand - test the new FOP build.
Hot diggity dog!
I finally got around to trying this out today, and I have to say this is a beautiful thing! Everything just worked! Wonderful!
To give you some background, I've spent the past several weeks working on Docbook/FOP stuff for another project, and been fighting the whole Java stack the entire time. Karsten and Thomas (and anyone else who worked on this), please contact me offline and I'll find a way to buy you a pizza. (Now if I could just get this other project finished, so that I can work on Fedora docs...)
-Jared Smith
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