Re: French PDF manual

[Guillaume LELARGE <guillaume(dot)lelarge(at)gmail(dot)com>]

Peter Eisentraut a écrit :
> 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.
> 
> 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 finally had time to work on this matter. It works just great with
libgcj. I just had to export JAVA_HOME with a new location and to
install Jimy (for image rendering). There's only one issue : I found it
quite slow.