On Mon, 2008-02-18 at 09:47 -0500, Jared Smith wrote: > I'm sure I'll have more questions later, but I figured I'd throw this > one out here -- Is anyone else able to build PDFs using Publican? I've > been playing with it all weekend, but I keep getting errors from FOP > when I try to build PDFs. OK, sorry for the noise on the list... I think I've made some pretty good progress on tracking down this problem. To make a long short, publican is assuming that we're using FOP 0.20, while what's in rawhide is 0.94. This meant xsltproc was adding fox:destination elements to the .fo file, instead of the new fo:bookmarks instead. To work around this problem, I had to pass two additional string parameters to xsltproc (in Makefile.templates): --stringparam fop1.extensions 1 --stringparam fop.extensions 0 That got the .fo file generated so that FOP 0.94 would handle it correctly, but then FOP died complaining that it couldn't find Batik in the classpath. (Which is strange, because I have batik installed. I'm wondering if the version of FOP in rawhide needs to be rebuilt with something to tell it to look for batik, but that's just a wild guess.) FOP needs batik to render the SVG graphics. To get around this problem, I removed the SVG logo from my document, and I passed one more parameter to xsltproc to tell it to use the .png admonition graphics instead of the SVG versions: --stringparam admon.graphics.extension .png Ah, lo and behold, I was able to render a PDF! I'll go ahead and create a diff against Makefile.templates and post it to bugzilla tomorrow, but this raises a few questions: 1) Do we want the toolchain to be able to detect the version of FOP and adjust itself accordingly? 2) Do we want to expose other parameters to xsltproc? In my very rudimentary home-grown toolchain, I create a custom XSLT stylesheet that exposes a bunch of settings (paper.type, double.sided, draft.mode, shade.verbatim, etc.) which imports the standard XSL stylesheet. Would this be more manageable in the long run that passing a bunch of stringparam arguments to xsltproc? 3) Makefile.templates currently tells FOP to use the fop configuration file in $(COMMON_CONFIG)/fop/fop-0.20.5.xconf, but that doesn't come as part of the publican package. Should we remove the reference (and assume people have a valid FOP config file in /etc/fop.conf), or expose this via a variable in the Makefile? (This isn't a big deal -- I just thought I'd mention it in passing while I was thinking about it.) 4) Can somebody take a look at why fop isn't seeing batik in the classpath? My Java skills are obviously too weak to fix this problem. -Jared -- fedora-docs-list mailing list fedora-docs-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-docs-list
