Re: Docbook 5.x

Hi,

after some manual interventions (which must become part of an algorithm)
it's possible to created the complete PDF file for the db4 production
chain: *.sgml -- (perl) --> *.xml and after that step: postgres.xml --
(evaluate XInclude with xmllint) --> postgres_all.xml -- (xsltproc using
standard db4 stylesheet) --> postgres_all.fo -- (fop) -->
postgres_all.pdf. The fo/pdf generation takes about 1 minute.

Actually the layout of the resulting pdf file differs from the original
one as I used only standard scripts without any adoption to the
PostgreSQL styles. Additionally I'm missing some of the links.

Jürgen Purtz


On 04.05.2016 17:30, Jürgen Purtz wrote:
> On 04.05.2016 16:51, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Ouch.  What about output to PDF?  While we don't care as much about
>> that as HTML for day-to-day use, it has to be feasible (ie, not hours).
>>
>>             regards, tom lane
>
> Actually I made tests using fop on single files (the converted sgml
> files). This works within seconds and in my very first mail from
> 2016-04-20 I added the results for the 'advanced.xml' file. When I try
> to convert the complete 'postgres_all.xml' file, fop crashes after
> some minutes. As fop is a Java application, it is possible that the
> assigned main memory is short (-Xms -Xmx, ...) - or it comes from some
> other Java specific issues. I will work on this in the next days.
>
> Jürgen Purtz
>