I didn't realize you were doing this on Windows...I'd actually prefer that. Years ago David stated Windows would not be possible, so I didn't realize that had changed. I'll give that a shot.
I ran into an immediate road block with your ubuntu instructions. The patched version doesn't appear available any more. I just finished installing the latest wkhtmltopdf, but haven't had a chance to see if it works or not. I think I'll focus on the Windows build first, since if I do any editting, it will be on Windows also. Rick On Tue, Dec 25, 2018 at 10:18 AM Erich Steinböck <erich.steinbo...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm building on Windows only, using an ancient, unsupported version of > publican plus fop for Windows > I changed some settings, like single-page formatting and added a crude > manual cleaning-step which removes a lot of annoying whitespace around > examples. Windows was (and still seems) the only way to get a decent PDF. > PDFs built on Ubuntu had several major issues (reported at > https://www.redhat.com/archives/publican-list/2016-August/msg00004.html) > which I didn't understand well enough to be able to fix. > Also the build would take some ten times longer than on Windows and I'm > doing all the editing on Windows, so a build capability on Windows is > really a must for me. > > My old installation notes for publican on Windows are here, but I'm not > sure how complete these are > > ~~~ > Install Publican > https://fedorahosted.org/releases/p/u/publican/ > Tars and SRPMs: https://fedorahosted.org/releases/p/u/publican/ > Publican-Installer-3.0.exe > > Install FOP > https://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/download.html > http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/xmlgraphics/fop > > http://mirror.cc.columbia.edu/pub/software/apache/xmlgraphics/fop/binaries/fop-1.1-bin.zip > > add "version: 5.0" to docs/trunk/rexxref/publican.cfg > either > add Publican path to PATH: set path="\Program Files > (x86)\Publican;"%PATH%, or > use "\Program Files (x86)\Publican;publican.exe" instead of "publican" > either > add FOP path to PATH: set path=\FOP\fop-1.1;%PATH%, or > create a BAT file (within your PATH) that redirects > publican build --formats=pdf --langs=en-US --common_content=".." > ~~~ > > On Tue, Dec 25, 2018 at 3:38 PM Rick McGuire <object.r...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> I'll give it a go...how are you building the docs now if not this way? >> >> Rick >> >> On Tue, Dec 25, 2018 at 9:30 AM Erich Steinböck < >> erich.steinbo...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> I tried this some two or three years ago, and it was a miserable >>> experience. >>> I've attached below my notes from back then. >>> >>> If you want to give it a try, please note down each step as accurately >>> as possible. If we get somewhere, I'll add the steps required to our Wiki. >>> >>> I tried getting help for a few things by posting to the publican-list >>> publican-l...@redhat.com >>> >>> The publican-list archives are to be found at >>> https://www.redhat.com/archives/publican-list/ >>> >>> ~~~ >>> sudo apt install publican >>> # this will install fop, but fop is deprecated by publican, it wants >>> wkhtmltopdf >>> # installing wkhtmltopdf doesn't seem to work, as publican requires a >>> 'patched' version >>> # see >>> https://www.redhat.com/archives/publican-list/2014-April/msg00003.html >>> >>> # in case we've already tried to install wkhtmltopdf: >>> # >>> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18758589/wkhtmltopdf-installation-error-on-ubuntu >>> sudo apt-get remove --purge wkhtmltopdf >>> >>> # now let's install 'patched' wkhtmltopdf: >>> sudo apt-get install openssl build-essential xorg libssl-dev >>> # http://wkhtmltopdf.org/downloads.html >>> wget >>> http://download.gna.org/wkhtmltopdf/0.12/0.12.3/wkhtmltox-0.12.3_linux-generic-amd64.tar.xz >>> tar xf wkhtmltox-0.12.3_linux-generic-amd64.tar.xz >>> cd wkhtmltox/bin >>> sudo chown root:root wkhtmltopdf >>> sudo cp wkhtmltopdf /usr/local/bin/wkhtmltopdf >>> wkhtmltopdf --version # wkhtmltopdf 0.12.3 (with patched qt) >>> >>> # to avoid "failed loading image" errors and unexplained "wkhtmltopdf >>> died" errors >>> # >>> https://www.redhat.com/archives/publican-list/2013-August/msg00005.html >>> ulimit -n 8192 >>> ~~~ >>> >>> >>> >>> On Tue, Dec 25, 2018 at 1:28 PM Rick McGuire <object.r...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> I have a working Ubuntu 18.10 now running in VirtualBox. It would be >>>> nice to be able to build the docs on VM as well. Is there a guide for what >>>> needs to be installed for this? >>>> >>>> Rick >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Oorexx-devel mailing list >>>> Oorexx-devel@lists.sourceforge.net >>>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oorexx-devel >>>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Oorexx-devel mailing list >>> Oorexx-devel@lists.sourceforge.net >>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oorexx-devel >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> Oorexx-devel mailing list >> Oorexx-devel@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oorexx-devel >> > _______________________________________________ > Oorexx-devel mailing list > Oorexx-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oorexx-devel >
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