Hi Bill, See below.
On 11/20/2015 05:55 AM, Bill Somerville wrote: > On 19/11/2015 22:07, Greg Beam wrote: >> If we're not going to ship a PDF with the package, Asccidoctor has a >> module that can be installed via gem to generate PDF's. It's >> implementation is not 100% yet, but it's working for v1.7.0. This >> "should" also work for the v1.6.0-RC version. >> >> To install / test: >> >> * open JTSDK-QT >> gem install --pre asciidoctor-pdf > Hi Greg, > > I did have a look at asciidoctor-pdf but its pre-relaease status and the > fact that it will not install on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS since it has a > dependency on Ruby 2.0 (via prawn 2.0.2) so it gets messy very quickly. Yes, I apologize, I should have stated "On Windows", as 14.04 has Ruby 1.9.3 and prawn requires 2.0.2. That's why In stated if we're not going to Ship the PDF with the package. Vivid and above is OK. > > The asciidoctor-fopub utility is not in the repos at all which makes it > a bit simpler although it requires both a Java JRE and JDK. Obviously > not very useful for package building but if I make the WSJT-X CMake PDF > generation silently fail if the tool is not available, it can at least > be used to generate a PDF when needed. > > The fopub tool uses FOP so has all the FO parameters available for > tweaking the PDF generation and does seem to work very well. As you stated, if PDF generation is going to become the standard, DocBook is ( IMHO ) a much better way forward. If that's the case, we to re-look at a few things as the way we've set up the user guide ( as an Article) rather than a book is is not ideal for creating PDF's properly. > > 73 > Bill > G4WJS. > 73's Greg, KI7MT ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ wsjt-devel mailing list wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wsjt-devel
