Junior Job: Testing PDF generation

[Anne-Marie Mahfouf]

On April 20, 2005 07:24 am, Philip Rodrigues wrote:
> Hi,
> (Apologies if this is a re-post.)
> Hopefully this is a task suitable for a new contributor on the Quality
> Teams: We're working on producing PDF versions of the KDE documentation,
> and need more testers. The main issue at the moment is finding out whether
> some problems are local to our systems, or general problems.
>
> Hopefully, this shouldn't require much knowledge of, well, anything :-),
> but people with knowledge of docbook, XSL, LaTeX or Perl would be very
> welcome.
>
> Instructions:
> 1. Download http://users.ox.ac.uk/~chri1802/stuff/pdf-generation.tar.bz2
> 2. Untar it and read the instructions.
> 3. Generate PDFs for a bunch of different KDE docs, and look through them
> for problems, errors, etc, then report them to me or
> kde-doc-english at kde.org , along with your version of libxslt.
>
> If you're interested in helping, get back to me either on this list, or on
> IRC (irc.freenode.net, nick PhilRod).
>
> Cheers,
> Phil
Hi, 

I tried and got:

annma at localhost:~/pdf-generation$ ./makepdf.pl klettres/
xsltproc --catalogs -o 
index.tex /home/annma/pdf-generation//xsl/mydb2latex.xsl index.docbook
Can't exec "xsltproc": No such file or directory at ./makepdf.pl line 33.
Can't open index.tex: No such file or directory at ./makepdf.pl line 64.
Running pdflatex...

My system:

annma at localhost:~/pdf-generation/klettres$ export 
DB2LATEXDIR=/home/annma/pdf-generation/
annma at localhost:~/pdf-generation$ rpm -qa |grep xslt
libxslt1-devel-1.1.2-1mdk
libxslt1-1.1.2-1mdk
annma at localhost:~/pdf-generation$ rpm -qa |grep Image
ImageMagick-6.0.4.4-5mdk
annma at localhost:~/pdf-generation$

In the texput.log:

! Emergency stop.
<*> index.tex
             
*** (job aborted, file error in nonstop mode)

The common and figures dirs were generated and the log files, that's all.

I don't seem to have that xsltproc...

annma

annma