Documentation in pdf format

[Geert Janssens]

On Wednesday 24 November 2010, Cristian Marchi wrote:
> 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.
> 
Yes, there are still some tweaks required to clean them up. See my other mail 
for more issues I found.

Geert

> 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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