Re: [Boost-docs] pdf generation broken on trunk

Subject: Re: [Boost-docs] pdf generation broken on trunk
From: John Maddock (john_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-08-05 16:11:45

Roland Schwarz wrote:
> Paul A Bristow wrote:
>>> Roland Schwarz wrote:
>>> This to me is an indication that fop 0.20.5 simply is (too)
>>> broken, and
>>
>
>> John Maddock concluded this as well and has used for the Math
>> Toolkit docs  - 350 pages and counting ;-) and recommended RenderX
>> to generate the pdf.
>>
>> It renders in colour (though I've not seen with the *new* coloured
>> syntax yet).
>>
>> You can get a trial version free.
>
> I cannot easily see how this relates to the boostbook toolchain in
> Boost.Build.
>
> One can alway use external tools, and perhaps it would be best for the
> current boostbook tool to be able to specify external renderers as an
> option.

RenderX (or XEP for short), is a drop in replacement for Apache FOP, my 
user-config.jam has:

using fop :  #C:/download/open/xml/fop-0.93/fop.bat
             #C:/download/open/xml/fop-0.20.5/fop.bat
             C:/Progra~1/xep/xep.bat
           : C:/PROGRA~1/Java/j2re1.4.2_12
           ;

So as you can see, I've tried them all at some point!

John.