you can give wkhtmltopdf a try. Uses Webkit and is fine with JavaScript.
BR
Maruan Sahyoun
Am 26.06.2013 um 17:37 schrieb Daniel Kulp <dk...@apache.org>:
>
> With the latest confluence (and also once they actually update to 5.1.x), the
> Camel manual is no longer producible. The main problem is the javascript
> that is used to format all the {code} and {snippet} macros. The old version
> of confluence rendered them into static HTML which prince handled fine. The
> new versions require some javascript to render it.
>
> I tried updating the html for the manual to add the javascript into it and
> pass the --javascript flag to prince. With the 8.1r3 version of prince I
> had, it would segfault. Updating to 8.1r5 (latest from prince) goes into an
> infinite loop. Thus, there are a few options:
>
> 1) When converting from book-in-one-page.html to the manual.html, we can try
> and adjust the <script> tags that confluence now generates to convert them
> to something prince can render. There may be a different javascript based
> highlighter that prince can handle. Not really sure, would require a bit of
> investigation and experimentation.
>
> 2) Similar to (1), I could try updating the CXF site-exporter to use a
> different syntax highlighter. I currently just use the same one as
> confluence to make sure it works.
>
> 3) Experiment with different HTML -> PDF renderers. There are several out
> there, not sure if any of them can handle the javascript any better.
>
> 4) Report issues to prince and hope for a new version of prince that can
> handle it.
>
> 5) Drop the PDF manual entirely. We can keep the html manual if we really
> want it.
>
> I did try the Confluence "Export to PDF" option and that didn't render the
> code blocks either. So no help there.
>
> 1-3 would require a bit of work and I really don't want to go down those
> routes if #5 is the "best" option for us. I don't recommend #4. I'm
> personally in favor of #5 as I really don't see much "value" in the PDF
> manual at this point.
>
> Thoughts?
>
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> Daniel Kulp
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