From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Alan W. Irwin" To: docbook-tools-discuss@sources.redhat.com Subject: pdfjadetex does not work! (was .pdf generation error using the"newer" tools) Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2000 06:36:00 -0000 Message-id: References: X-SW-Source: 2000/msg00407.html Three pdfjadetex questions/comments, then details of my system. (1) Has anybody gotten the pdfjadetex command to work with the latest Cygnus docbook? My 100+ pages of documentation definitely don't work, but to reproduce the bug in an easy way I use the hello world file from http://nis-www.lanl.gov/~rosalia/mydocs/docbook-intro/get-going.html#HELLO-WORLD with the first 2 lines replaced by I created hello_world.tex using jade -c /etc/sgml/catalog \ -d /usr/share/sgml/docbook/dsssl-stylesheets-1.57/print/docbook.dsl \ -t tex /usr/share/sgml/xml.dcl hello_world.xml To check hello_world.tex is a good file I executed jadetex hello_world.tex The dvi file could be displayed with xdvi without problems. ******However, I cannot create a pdf version of this document********** pdfjadetex hello_world.tex This is pdfTeX, Version 3.14159-13d (Web2C 7.3.1) (Fatal format file error; I'm stymied) Note this command works fine on my Debian box with this simple example and also my 100+ pages of documentation. (2) Has anybody been able to recreate pdfjadetex.fmt (and jadetex.fmt) with more resources on a Cygnus-RedHat 6.2 system? Files are missing in the jadetex rpm, but even when I replace those files, I cannot recreate pdfjadetex.fmt or jadetex.fmt. This is unlikely to be a tetex problem because I can recreate all *.fmt files *except pdfjadetex.fmt and jadetex.fmt*. It has been suggested previously on this list that the "I'm stymied" problem might be due to lack of resources. I successfully create extra resources for pdfjadetex.fmt and jadetex.fmt on my Debian box with the appropriate pdfjadetex.ini and jadetex.ini files and the appropriate special configuration file for fmtutil configuration file. (These are the files that are missing from the Cygnus jadetex.rpm file). However, even when I copy the missing files from my Debian box to the Cygnus RedHat 6.2 box, the fmtutil command does nothing when the special configuration file is specified. The procedure returns after a second or two with no error messages or any other kind of output. OTOH, if I execute fmtutil --all (i.e., using the standard configuration file) on the Cygnus box, all *.fmt files are recreated with parameters specified in texmf.cnf except for pdfjadetex.fmt and jadetex.fmt which remain completely unchanged with the old dates. (3) I am beginning to feel the pdfjadetex problem might be more fundamental than lack of resources since hello_world takes up so few resources, and any attempt to reformat pdfjadetex (and jadetex) with more resources also fails. So I would be most interested whether anybody can get either (1) or (2) to work. ****System Details**** (1) Redhat 6.2 box completely updated with latest bug, security, etc., fixes from the Redhat site. (2) Vanilla RedHat 6.2 Docbook stripped out. Here is the list of package files whose equivalent package was removed. docbook-3.1-3.noarch.rpm jade-1.2.1-9.i386.rpm jadetex-2.7-2.i386.rpm sgml-common-0.1-7.noarch.rpm sgml-tools-1.0.9-5.i386.rpm stylesheets-0.13rh-4.noarch.rpm (3) Latest Cygnus DocBook installed. docbook-dtd31-sgml-1.0-6.noarch.rpm docbook-dtd41-sgml-1.0-6.noarch.rpm docbook-dtd41-xml-1.0-2.noarch.rpm docbook-style-dsssl-1.57-2.noarch.rpm docbook-utils-0.6-1.noarch.rpm jade-1.2.1-6.i386.rpm jadetex-2.20-4.noarch.rpm perl-SGMLSpm-1.03ii-3.noarch.rpm sgml-common-0.4-1.noarch.rpm ******Background: I am part of the documentation team for the plplot project ( http://www.plplot.org .), and we successfully build our 100+ pages of documentation using the Debian DocBook tools. But those in the group without access to Debian need to build the documentation on RedHat 6.2, and I would like to recommend the Cygnus solution to them for this purpose. So far it works fairly well except for this pdf generation problem, and I hope somebody can help to get that straightened out. Thanks in advance, Alan email: irwin@beluga.phys.uvic.ca phone: 250-727-2902 FAX: 250-721-7715 snail-mail: Dr. Alan W. Irwin Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria, P.O. Box 3055, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, V8W 3P6 __________________________ Linux-powered astrophysics __________________________ From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Alan W. Irwin" To: docbook-tools-discuss@sources.redhat.com Subject: pdfjadetex does not work! (was .pdf generation error using the"newer" tools) Date: Mon, 04 Dec 2000 09:46:00 -0000 Message-ID: References: X-SW-Source: 2000-q4/msg00048.html Message-ID: <20001204094600.TOBWKch_6XmCJMRbN50aJGFW3AI0uEHGPgkevBQX_AQ@z> Three pdfjadetex questions/comments, then details of my system. (1) Has anybody gotten the pdfjadetex command to work with the latest Cygnus docbook? My 100+ pages of documentation definitely don't work, but to reproduce the bug in an easy way I use the hello world file from http://nis-www.lanl.gov/~rosalia/mydocs/docbook-intro/get-going.html#HELLO-WORLD with the first 2 lines replaced by I created hello_world.tex using jade -c /etc/sgml/catalog \ -d /usr/share/sgml/docbook/dsssl-stylesheets-1.57/print/docbook.dsl \ -t tex /usr/share/sgml/xml.dcl hello_world.xml To check hello_world.tex is a good file I executed jadetex hello_world.tex The dvi file could be displayed with xdvi without problems. ******However, I cannot create a pdf version of this document********** pdfjadetex hello_world.tex This is pdfTeX, Version 3.14159-13d (Web2C 7.3.1) (Fatal format file error; I'm stymied) Note this command works fine on my Debian box with this simple example and also my 100+ pages of documentation. (2) Has anybody been able to recreate pdfjadetex.fmt (and jadetex.fmt) with more resources on a Cygnus-RedHat 6.2 system? Files are missing in the jadetex rpm, but even when I replace those files, I cannot recreate pdfjadetex.fmt or jadetex.fmt. This is unlikely to be a tetex problem because I can recreate all *.fmt files *except pdfjadetex.fmt and jadetex.fmt*. It has been suggested previously on this list that the "I'm stymied" problem might be due to lack of resources. I successfully create extra resources for pdfjadetex.fmt and jadetex.fmt on my Debian box with the appropriate pdfjadetex.ini and jadetex.ini files and the appropriate special configuration file for fmtutil configuration file. (These are the files that are missing from the Cygnus jadetex.rpm file). However, even when I copy the missing files from my Debian box to the Cygnus RedHat 6.2 box, the fmtutil command does nothing when the special configuration file is specified. The procedure returns after a second or two with no error messages or any other kind of output. OTOH, if I execute fmtutil --all (i.e., using the standard configuration file) on the Cygnus box, all *.fmt files are recreated with parameters specified in texmf.cnf except for pdfjadetex.fmt and jadetex.fmt which remain completely unchanged with the old dates. (3) I am beginning to feel the pdfjadetex problem might be more fundamental than lack of resources since hello_world takes up so few resources, and any attempt to reformat pdfjadetex (and jadetex) with more resources also fails. So I would be most interested whether anybody can get either (1) or (2) to work. ****System Details**** (1) Redhat 6.2 box completely updated with latest bug, security, etc., fixes from the Redhat site. (2) Vanilla RedHat 6.2 Docbook stripped out. Here is the list of package files whose equivalent package was removed. docbook-3.1-3.noarch.rpm jade-1.2.1-9.i386.rpm jadetex-2.7-2.i386.rpm sgml-common-0.1-7.noarch.rpm sgml-tools-1.0.9-5.i386.rpm stylesheets-0.13rh-4.noarch.rpm (3) Latest Cygnus DocBook installed. docbook-dtd31-sgml-1.0-6.noarch.rpm docbook-dtd41-sgml-1.0-6.noarch.rpm docbook-dtd41-xml-1.0-2.noarch.rpm docbook-style-dsssl-1.57-2.noarch.rpm docbook-utils-0.6-1.noarch.rpm jade-1.2.1-6.i386.rpm jadetex-2.20-4.noarch.rpm perl-SGMLSpm-1.03ii-3.noarch.rpm sgml-common-0.4-1.noarch.rpm ******Background: I am part of the documentation team for the plplot project ( http://www.plplot.org .), and we successfully build our 100+ pages of documentation using the Debian DocBook tools. But those in the group without access to Debian need to build the documentation on RedHat 6.2, and I would like to recommend the Cygnus solution to them for this purpose. So far it works fairly well except for this pdf generation problem, and I hope somebody can help to get that straightened out. Thanks in advance, Alan email: irwin@beluga.phys.uvic.ca phone: 250-727-2902 FAX: 250-721-7715 snail-mail: Dr. Alan W. Irwin Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria, P.O. Box 3055, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, V8W 3P6 __________________________ Linux-powered astrophysics __________________________