Documentation in pdf format

Cristian Marchi cri79 at libero.it
Wed Nov 24 08:13:53 EST 2010


I tested it right now and works well; the result is very good!
I see problems with images (some are overscaled) and with some help 
tables where the last column is probably too large and is drawn in a new 
page.

Regards
Cristian

Il 24/11/2010 13:36, Geert Janssens ha scritto:
> Hi,
>
> A couple of days back I have restored the pdf generation functionality in our
> documentation source tree. With this you can generate a pdf file from the help
> manual or the concepts guide.
>
> You need xsltproc and fop installed on your system to be able to use it.
> xsltproc may come with libxslt on your system. Most of today's distro's have
> fop in one of their software repositories. I have mentioned some of them in
> the README file in the documentation directory.
>
> Once fop is installed it's very easy to generate pdfs:
> * checkout gnucash-docs/trunk
> * in the root of your working copy run
>    ./autogen.sh
>    ./configure
> * This initialized the build system for the documentation. Note, if fop or
> xsltproc is missing you will get an warning or error to tell you so.
> * Next go into the directory for which you wish to generate a pdf file
>    cd help/C
> * And run
>    make pdf
> * Fop will spew a lot of warnings, but in the end you will have gnucash-
> help.pdf in the directory.
> * If you wish to generate pdfs for all documents in all languages, run
>    make pdf
>    from the root of your working directory. The pdfs will be in each respective
> source directory.
>
> Geert
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