From: | "Guillaume Lelarge" <guillaume(dot)lelarge(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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To: | "Peter Eisentraut" <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> |
Cc: | "Bruce Momjian" <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-docs(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: French PDF manual |
Date: | 2006-05-09 20:02:50 |
Message-ID: | d854adec0605091302s77923195j7c17f3c761da9ce1@mail.gmail.com |
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2006/5/9, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>:
> Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > Should we modify the doc build process to generate XML and convert
> > that to PDF, or allow it as an option, because PDF generation has
> > always been a problem from SGML (very slow)?
>
> If the FOP-based build works better than Jade, by all means let's use
> that. Last time I looked at FOP (years ago, admittedly), it broke at
> about page 10. Obviously, Guillaume and company are getting better
> results now.
>
We are getting better results in quality. Speed is quite different :
really quick to build a PDF, really slow to build HTML files.
> What I would like to know, however, is whether FOP runs on a Free(tm)
> Java implementation. It seems that you need Sun's JDK to run it and
> that will be a problem if it's to become our primary build method.
>
I use Sun's JDK. I didn't try something else... I'm gonna try.
--
Guillaume.
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