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 It seems the README.txt file is out of date.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 documentation from an outdated file format into XML files for this repo.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 > >