Pierre Labastie wrote:
On 01/03/2017 11:56, Jeremy Henty wrote:
Is there a reason why there is no PDF of the BLFS book at the download
site[1]? The LFS download site[2] has a PDF of the LFS book. Why
should there be a difference between the two?
[1] http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/downloads/8.0/
[2] http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/downloads/8.0/
Bruce may answer more completely than I, but I think generating
a pdf book needs a lot of tweaks (to have lines fit on the page width,
specially). For LFS, this is manageable, but for BLFS, the book is to
big and its layout changes too often.
The above is correct, but in addition, I think the pdf version is too big
to be useful. It is over 2000 pages. Copy/paste in pdf versions of LFS
are problematical, so the same is probably true for a BLFS pdf.
That said, a user always has to option of creating a pdf version of the
book using the instructions in the LFS Makefile as a template:
RENDERTMP=$(HOME)/tmp
BASEDIR=~/blfs-book
PDF_OUTPUT=BLFS-BOOK.pdf
REV=sysv # or systemd
ROOTID=
echo "Creating and cleaning $(RENDERTMP)"
mkdir -p $(RENDERTMP)
rm -f $(RENDERTMP)/*lfs*.xml
rm -f $(RENDERTMP)/*wget*
rm -f $(RENDERTMP)/*md5sum*
rm -f $(RENDERTMP)/*pdf.fo
echo "Adjusting for revision $(REV)..."
xsltproc --nonet \
--xinclude \
--output $(RENDERTMP)/blfs-html2.xml \
--stringparam profile.revision $(REV) \
stylesheets/lfs-xsl/profile.xsl \
index.xml
echo "Validating the book..."
xmllint --nonet \
--noent \
--postvalid \
-o $(RENDERTMP)/blfs-full.xml \
$(RENDERTMP)/blfs-html2.xml
echo "Generating profiled XML for PDF..."
xsltproc --nonet \
--stringparam profile.condition pdf \
--output $(RENDERTMP)/blfs-pdf.xml \
stylesheets/lfs-xsl/profile.xsl \
$(RENDERTMP)/blfs-html2.xml
echo "Generating FO file..."
xsltproc --nonet \
--stringparam rootid "$(ROOT_ID)" \
--output $(RENDERTMP)/blfs-pdf.fo \
stylesheets/blfs-pdf.xsl \
$(RENDERTMP)/blfs-pdf.xml
echo "Generating PDF file..."
mkdir -p $(BASEDIR)
fop -q $(RENDERTMP)/blfs-pdf.fo $(BASEDIR)/$(PDF_OUTPUT) 2>fop.log
echo "$(BASEDIR)/$(PDF_OUTPUT) created"
# Not tested
-- Bruce
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