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Date: Sat, 20 May 2006 19:39:28 +0200
From: Guillaume LELARGE <guillaume.lelarge@gmail.com>
Organization: traduc.org, postgresqlfr.org
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To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
CC: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>,  pgsql-docs@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: French PDF manual
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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.