<quote who="Tommy Reynolds"> > I've been looking into using Apache FOP to render PDF's, instead of the > buggy-as-a-summer-night PassiveTeX. While there is a FOP rewrite under > way, the latest public version has a show-stopper bug triggered by > DocBook projects larger than something trivial: the dreaded "duplicate > id" bug. > > Riz Virk <Riz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> kindly sent me a patch that appears to > eliminate the bug. I tried it out on a ~300 page document I'm writing > and it rendered PDF just fine. The patch is licensed under the Apache > license, so it should be OK for our use here. > > The patch is attached. Superb!!! I can't wait to test it!!! > Just download the FOP source from > http://government-grants.org/mirrors/apache.org/xml/fop/source/fop-0.20.5-src.tar.gz > and then: > > Replace the file "src/org/apache/fop/datatypes/IDReferences.java" with > the attached file. > > Go back to the top-level FOP directory and type: > > $ ant > > You'll need to get "ant" and the "java-1.4.2-gcj-compat-1.4.2.0-11jpp" > packages from the "jpackage.org" YUM repository. You'll also need the > "gcc-java" RPM. > > If you don't want to go to this trouble, the 1.5MB "fop.jar" file is > at: http://www.megacoder.com/fop/fop.jar > > This, plus the modified "xmlto" I did earlier may be good enough > until the FOP rewrite is complete (no date for that, though). > > Cheers! > -- > > fedora-docs-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: > http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-docs-list
