Re: [boost] [docs][boostbook] FOP 1.0 is broken

Subject: Re: [boost] [docs][boostbook] FOP 1.0 is broken
From: Daniel Pfeifer (daniel_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-03-13 05:39:36

Am Sonntag, den 13.03.2011, 11:39 +0700 schrieb Eric Niebler:
> On 3/12/2011 10:42 PM, Ronald Garcia wrote:
> > Howdy,
> > 
> > Just an FYI.
> > 
> > Apache FOP 1.0 has a bug that causes it to crash with an exception
> > when building boost PDF documentation.  This bug has been fixed in
> > the FOP repository, so nightly builds of fop do not exhibit it.
> 
> FOP has a bug? I'm shocked. SHOCKED. ;-)
> 
> I think most people here gave up on FOP some time ago and use XEP from
> RenderX.

Note there is an alternative route from DocBook to PDF that goes via
LaTeX instead of FO (http://dblatex.sourceforge.net/).

The resulting PDFs
- are smaller than those generated with a FO processor,
- have nice looking formulas (eg Boost.Accumulators), but
- do not have nice syntax coloring in source listings.

cheers, Daniel