Comments on: How to Create Handsome PDF Documents Without Frustration http://blog.rainwebs.net/2010/02/25/how-to-create-handsome-pdf-documents-without-frustration/ Next Generation Scrum Enterprise Web Development | Scrum . ICEfaces . Spring . Flex/AIR . 3D Sat, 26 Nov 2011 17:06:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: rainwebs http://blog.rainwebs.net/2010/02/25/how-to-create-handsome-pdf-documents-without-frustration/#comment-138 rainwebs Fri, 24 Sep 2010 21:57:00 +0000 http://blog.rainer.eschen.name/?p=1105#comment-138 Bernard, thanks for your experiences. Tools developed primarily in the U.S. always show some defects when we use European Umlauts ;-). I'm currently looking for a better processing chain (e.g. using DITA). But, it seems that the chain I describe in this post is still state-of-the-art :-(. Bernard,

thanks for your experiences. Tools developed primarily in the U.S. always show some defects when we use European Umlauts ;-) .

I’m currently looking for a better processing chain (e.g. using DITA). But, it seems that the chain I describe in this post is still state-of-the-art :-( .

]]> By: Bernard http://blog.rainwebs.net/2010/02/25/how-to-create-handsome-pdf-documents-without-frustration/#comment-137 Bernard Fri, 24 Sep 2010 09:30:00 +0000 http://blog.rainer.eschen.name/?p=1105#comment-137 I have been using asciidoc for years to generate and maintain java programming courses. It is very useful .... some snags though: - the syntax evolves sometimes in incompatible ways so you'll have to modify your documents ! (I have hundreds of documents!) - the program tries to connect to sourceforge and oasis to get document through the web if it is impossible (happens to be my case) you are obliged to build a local copy of thes documents (a cumbersome task) - I need to tidy and "sed"/modify the xml to adapt to french language (e.g change "example" to "exemple" and so on) - I needed to modify the source code to accept java examples (easy there) but overall a very useful application (use it through cygwin on windows 7) Bernard I have been using asciidoc for years to generate and maintain java programming courses.
It is very useful ….
some snags though:
– the syntax evolves sometimes in incompatible ways so you’ll have to modify your documents ! (I have hundreds of documents!)
– the program tries to connect to sourceforge and oasis to get document through the web if it is impossible (happens to be my case) you are obliged to build a local copy of thes documents (a cumbersome task)
– I need to tidy and “sed”/modify the xml to adapt to french language (e.g change “example” to “exemple” and so on)
– I needed to modify the source code to accept java examples (easy there)

but overall a very useful application
(use it through cygwin on windows 7)

Bernard

]]> By: rainwebs http://blog.rainwebs.net/2010/02/25/how-to-create-handsome-pdf-documents-without-frustration/#comment-132 rainwebs Thu, 02 Sep 2010 22:07:10 +0000 http://blog.rainer.eschen.name/?p=1105#comment-132 Matthew,<br><br>do you have done full-blown installations of all mentioned packages? Did you test it with the first batch file code? <br><br>Maybe you also have coding errors in the text source file. You may try to use each tool step by step using the different (generated) source files. My experience shows me that it is a bit tricky to recognize such (syntax) errors when you use the complete processing chain in one step. Matthew,

do you have done full-blown installations of all mentioned packages? Did you test it with the first batch file code?

Maybe you also have coding errors in the text source file. You may try to use each tool step by step using the different (generated) source files. My experience shows me that it is a bit tricky to recognize such (syntax) errors when you use the complete processing chain in one step.

]]> By: Matthew Pettis http://blog.rainwebs.net/2010/02/25/how-to-create-handsome-pdf-documents-without-frustration/#comment-131 Matthew Pettis Thu, 02 Sep 2010 20:02:03 +0000 http://blog.rainer.eschen.name/?p=1105#comment-131 I know this is an older post, but this post is linked to from the asciidoc documentation. Anyway, I am on Windows and attempting this after installing asciidoc, dblatex, and tetex on cygwin. when using your second .bat file, I get the error:<br><br>---------------------<br>Image 'dblatex' not found<br>Build V6-V7-Production-stress-tests.pdf<br>built-in module pdftex registered<br>no support found for ifxetex<br>no support found for fontspec<br>no support found for xltxtra<br>no support found for fontenc<br>no support found for inputenc<br>no support found for fancybox<br>built-in module makeidx registered<br>no support found for asciidoc-dblatex<br>building additional files...<br>checking if compiling is necessary...<br>the output file doesn't exist<br>pdflatex -interaction=batchmode V6-V7-Production-stress-tests.tex<br>This is pdfeTeXk, Version 3.141592-1.21a-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.4)<br> file:line:error style messages enabled.<br> %&-line parsing enabled.<br>entering extended mode<br>pdflatex failed<br>V6-V7-Production-stress-tests.tex: File `fancybox.sty' not found.<br>Unexpected error occured<br>a2x: deleting /cygdrive/e/RMG/JMS-Test-Versions/doc/V6-V7-Production-stress-tests.xml<br>-------------------------------------<br><br>any idea why i get this? dblatex is installed and i can call it from the command line on its own...<br><br>thanks,<br>matt I know this is an older post, but this post is linked to from the asciidoc documentation. Anyway, I am on Windows and attempting this after installing asciidoc, dblatex, and tetex on cygwin. when using your second .bat file, I get the error:

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Image 'dblatex' not found
Build V6-V7-Production-stress-tests.pdf
built-in module pdftex registered
no support found for ifxetex
no support found for fontspec
no support found for xltxtra
no support found for fontenc
no support found for inputenc
no support found for fancybox
built-in module makeidx registered
no support found for asciidoc-dblatex
building additional files…
checking if compiling is necessary…
the output file doesn't exist
pdflatex -interaction=batchmode V6-V7-Production-stress-tests.tex
This is pdfeTeXk, Version 3.141592-1.21a-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.4)
file:line:error style messages enabled.
%&-line parsing enabled.
entering extended mode
pdflatex failed
V6-V7-Production-stress-tests.tex: File `fancybox.sty' not found.
Unexpected error occured
a2x: deleting /cygdrive/e/RMG/JMS-Test-Versions/doc/V6-V7-Production-stress-tests.xml
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any idea why i get this? dblatex is installed and i can call it from the command line on its own…

thanks,
matt

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