[kde-doc-english] PDF generation from pt_BR KDE Docbook

[Felipe Miguel]

Hi Frank,
I will download the source tarball and try to learn something from it. :-)
Thank you very much!
Regards,
Felipe


2007/9/13, Frank Schoolmeesters <frank.schoolmeesters at gmail.com>:
> On 9/13/07, Felipe Miguel <felipemiguel at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I would like to generate a PDF file from the brazilian portuguese
> > version of the KDE User Guide. Is it possible?
> >
> > I already tried htmldoc, but I think it has some problems when
> > handling with accentuated characters.
> >
> > I also took a glance on dblatex,
> > but it didn't work here (Mandriva 2007.1):
> >
> > No external file support
> > compilation error: file
> > /home/felipe/dblatex-0.1.10/share/dblatex/xsl/legalnotice.xsl line 22
> > element param
> > The value '$nodes' of the attribute 'name' is not a valid QName.
> > gmake: ** [index.docbook.rtex] Erro 5
> > /tmp/tpub-felipe-23083 is not removed
> >
> > I bet some one already asked about this here, but untill now I didn't
> > find nothing that could generate this PDF file. Any idea or
> > suggestion?
> >
> > --
> > Felipe
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> >
>
> Hi Felipe,
>
> Creating PDF files is possible but not easy.
>
> I have created PDFs with dblatex for the Krusader documentation but it
> dit take some while before the PDF was created (compiled) succesfully.
>
> The most important issue is to use the latest available version of
> dblatex because it fixes several bugs and issues.
> (I failed to compile PDFs with older dblatex versions)
>
> Your dblatex-0.1.10 is to old in my opinion, the latest dblatex
> version is 0.2.7 released at 7 Sep 2007 btw.
> http://dblatex.sourceforge.net/
>
> My source tarball for the Krusader documenation can give you some
> clues i think howto create PDFs from a KDE docbook source:
> http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=6488&package_id=125990
> krusader_handbook-1.80.0-source.tar.gz
> and the result
> krusader_handbook-1.80.0-pdf.tar.gz
>
> btw. I have used Debian Etch, with the lastest dblatex version
> (+dependencies) of Debian unstable, wich means dblatex-0.2.5 at that
> time when i did create the above files.
>
> ps. there is a wiki (server seems to be dead for the moment)
>     http://wiki.kde.org/tiki-index.php?page=Docs+PDF+Generation
>     but the last time i have read it didn't contain yet useful information
>
> kind regards,
>
> Frank Schoolmeesters
> http://krusader.sourceforge.net/
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-- 
Felipe