I thought I'd give the ubuntu build a try. I was able to build and install the brand successfully. Attempting to build the docs got the the phase "Starting pdf" and it has been sitting there for a long time. I don't know it it is hung, or just taking a really long time. This is using the latest publican and wkhtmltopdf. Since you are using FOP on windows, I wonder if it might be better to delete wkhtmltopdf and allow it to use FOP instead.
Rick On Tue, Dec 25, 2018 at 11:39 AM Rick McGuire <object.r...@gmail.com> wrote: > OK, snag #1) fedorahosted.org has gone away and I haven't been able to > find another source for publican 3.0. Do you still have the installer file? > Perhaps we should add that to the buildutils directory on sourceforge. > > 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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