Re: .pdf generation error using the "newer" tools

["Alan W. Irwin" <irwin@beluga.phys.uvic.ca>]

Both the Cygnus DocBook packages and vanilla RedHat DocBook run on RedHat.
But you have to clearly choose Cygnus or vanilla.  If you try both on RedHat
they will interfere with each other. 

I don't want to get into a DocBook distribution war here, but my impression is the
Cygnus tools are generally better than the vanilla RedHat ones.  For example,
Cygnus is recommended to build the KDE documentation, and I have had more
troubles with the vanilla version than the Cygnus version for my documentation
project.

But to take advantage of Cygnus you have to get the latest version.  For
example, there was an upgraded package today at
ftp://sourceware.cygnus.com/pub/docbook-tools/new-trials/RPMS that Eric
kindly prepared to fix another bug that I found.

The major problem with pdfjadetex hasn't been fixed yet, but Eric said on
this list that it is on his ToDo list.  He will have to delay looking at it
until another higher priority project was completed, but I am willing to
settle for that.

Debian has a reliable DocBook system where pdfjadetex (and everything else
for my documentation project) works reliably for me, but if you don't have
access to Debian, I think you are going to have to wait to build your pdf
documents on Cygnus (or else give the vanilla Redhat DocBook system a try to
see if you can work around other problems there.) While waiting for pdf on
Cygnus you can certainly validate your input by looking at html or
postscript output.

Alan

email: irwin@beluga.phys.uvic.ca
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snail-mail:
Dr. Alan W. Irwin
Department of Physics and Astronomy,
University of Victoria, P.O. Box 3055,
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, V8W 3P6 
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On Fri, 8 Dec 2000, Bill Brooks wrote:

> On Sat, 2 Dec 2000, Alan W. Irwin wrote:
> 
> > Sorry for bringing this up again from the recent archives, but I am a newbie
> > on this list. 
> > 
> > I have exactly the same problem as Bill Brooks, and the suggested fix
> > doesn't work.
> 
> Sorry for the late follow-up. Yes, the suggested fix didn't work for me
> either. 
> 
> I really wonder what the developers of the Cygnus docbook tool chain are
> using...if it doesn't work on RedHat, what will it work on? 
> 
> I filed a bug report about this with RedHat and their support person
> mailed me back saying that the ones that ship with 6.2 work...the new
> RPM's on the old cygnus site aren't supported. 
> 
> Bill
> 
> 
>