Re: French PDF manual

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.