> > It shouldn't take me more than a couple of days to finish getting the > required components installed > Hi Michael, I've managed to make a first build (I used rexxref) with Publican/wkhtmltopdf on Ubuntu 16.04. It took me quite a lot of time - please see my posts at https://www.redhat.com/archives/publican-list/2016-August/thread.html before wasting as much time as I did
The result generally looks nice, but my feelings are mixed; PDF build time seems *much* longer, and I'm seeing quite some issues (again see my posts on the list). I admit, that I don't fully understand this "brand" stuff, and thus I don't know if there might be better predefined "brands" available, or such .. I also tried HTML build - works, but someone will have to figure how to put the generated HTML together with the CSS stuff, and images, etc. What does our time frame look like, i.e. when is 5.0 expected to be GA by? Don't ask :-) We'll see what we can do .. Erich On Mon, Aug 1, 2016 at 7:09 PM, Michael Mayne <[email protected]> wrote: > I agree that pursuing this under Windows is a dead end - even if it could > be made to work,it would doubtless be more trouble than it's worth. I'm in > the process of building a new Debian Jessie VM at home using VirtualBox. I > had to stop trying to do this on my work machine, as our corporate firewall > / security appliance just keeps getting more and more restrictive (in fact, > if they make it any more secure, it's probably going to not work at > all...). It shouldn't take me more than a couple of days to finish getting > the required components installed and to pull the current book source(s) > from the tree. I'll see if I can also find some Red Hat documents that are > built using Publican, and get copies of the document sources that were > changed to use wkhtmltopdf instead of Fop, and compare them to see how > onerous the changes might be, and to also see if there is a conversion tool > to make the change automatically. What does our time frame look like, i.e. > when is 5.0 expected to be GA by? > > On Mon, Aug 1, 2016 at 3:14 AM, Erich Steinböck < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> We're using *publican *to convert our DocBook XML files to PDF (and >> HTML). *publican *(under the covers) used to use *fop *to do the actual >> PDF conversion, but *fop *use has been deprecated by *publican *since a >> very long time. Nowadays *wkhtmltopdf *should be used instead of *fop*. >> >> For Windows, there's only a very old version of *publican *available >> (with an even older version of *fop*). There are no efforts by the >> *publican* developers to support Windows. With these older versions, >> PDF build of ooRexx docs seems to still work, although with many thousands >> of errors/warnings. From my tests I assume that building to HTML won't >> work on Windows. >> >> For Linux, the newer *publican *versions only support *wkhtmltopdf*, no >> *fop*. Building PDF currently doesn't work, as we'd have to switch from *fop >> *to *wkhtmltopdf* first. Using the latter I expect to get better >> results for PDF build, the possibility for HTML builds, and, if needed, >> support from the publican community. >> >> In order get out of the dead-end situation with publican on Windows I >> suggest we make the change to *wkhtmltopdf* and do our doc builds on >> Linux only. >> >> What do you think? Any other suggestions? >> >> >> Is anyone of you willing to dig into this and do the actual switch? >> I know that Michael Mayne has been doing something into that direction - >> Michael can you help with this? >> >> >> Ref: >> https://www.redhat.com/archives/publican-list/2016-August/msg00000.html >> >> > > > -- > Michael R. Mayne > Huntsville, Al >
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