Sebastien,

It works. The pdf files are created.

I had a glance through the pdf files, there are too many word breaks at
line ends. I do find such word breaks in the pdf files I get from
http://incubator.apache.org/cloudstack/docs/en-US/index.html

Thanks a lot,

Tian

On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 3:42 PM, Sebastien Goasguen <run...@gmail.com>wrote:

> Siyuan,
>
> Here is how I build the docs with publican:
>
> cd docs
>
> cp -R /usr/share/publican/Common_Content Common_Content
>
> cp -R publican-cloudstack Common_Content/cloudstack
>
> publican build --config=publican-adminguide.cfg --formats=pdf
> --langs=en-US --common_content=./Common_Content
>
> That's from memory, you may have to tweak the location of the
> Common_Content directory.
>
> Pick the guide that you want to build (different *.cfg file)
>
> The resulting pdf will be in /docs/tmp directory
>
> Hope that helps,
>
> -Sebastien
>
>
> On Nov 29, 2012, at 6:21 AM, Siyuan Tian <tiansiy...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi Sebastien,
> >
> > Nice blog!
> >
> > I have some issue with publican on docs directory in git.
> >
> > I have the updated git checkout and follow the steps in README.txt.
> >
> > I installed publican on my Ubuntu 12.10 via
> >
> >     sudo apt-get install publican
> >
> > The version installed is 2.8
> >
> > Then I try to run
> >
> >    publican build --formats test --langs en-US
> >
> > I get
> >
> > "Config file not found: publican.cfg. Perhaps you need to run 'publican
> > old2new' at /usr/bin/publican line 647"
> >
> > I try
> >
> >   publican old2new
> >
> > and get
> >
> > "Cannot open Makefile for reading: no such file or directory at
> > /usr/bin/publican line 493"
> >
> > I try again with
> >
> >    publican build --config=publican-all.cfg --formats test --langs en-US
> >
> > I get
> >
> > "Failed to load brand file:
> > /usr/share/publican/Common_Content/cloudstack/publican.cfg at
> > /usr/bin/publican line 647"
> >
> > It seems the README.txt file is out of date. At the beginning of it, it
> > says:
> >
> > "...
> > Updated: August 8, 2012
> > ...
> > The files are currently incomplete as we are in the process of converting
> > documentation from an outdated file format into XML files for this repo.
> > "
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Tian
> >
> > On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 11:26 PM, Sebastien Goasguen <run...@gmail.com
> >wrote:
> >
> >> Hi folks,
> >>
> >> I just posted a blog on how to help translate the documentation using
> >> Transifex:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> http://sebgoa.blogspot.ch/2012/11/translating-apache-cloudstack-docs-with.html
> >>
> >> We need tooonnnns of help !!
> >>
> >> -Sebastien
>
>

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