Re: [Boost-users] [Quickbook] How to create pdf file

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] [Quickbook] How to create pdf file
From: John Maddock (john_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-01-28 04:58:39

> Thank you John for your pointer. But I cannot open it with my browser, IE 
> or
>
> Firefox. The error code given by FF is: sec_error_unknown_issuer.
>
> Perhaps the reason is lack of permission?

Hmm, could be because I was logged in when I copied the URL :-(

Try the same URL but with a http: rather than https: prefix.  If that 
doesn't work there is a link from the main svn.boost.org page near the 
bottom, called "Getting Started with Boost Docs".

What it says about PDF's though is:

"First of all you will need an FO processor, there are basically only two 
free two choices here:

    * Apache FOP from http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/
    * XEP Personal edition from 
http://www.renderx.com/download/personal.html

The XEP processor generally produces much better results, but inserts a 
small "built with XEP" advert in the footer of each page. You will also need 
a Java virtual machine to run the FO processor on.

You will then need to edit your user-config.jam file to point to the 
location of the FO processor, for example:

using fop :
   # path to invocation batch file:
   C:/Progra~1/RenderX/xep/xep.bat
   :
   # path to Java installation, this is ignored if you're using XEP:
   C:/PROGRA~1/Java/j2re1.4.2_12
   ;

You should now be able to build pdf docs via:

bjam pdf

Note: you may actually experience errors at this point if Java runs out of 
memory, whether or not this occurs depends on the complexity of the 
documentation being built and how you Java runtime is configured. One way to 
fix this error is to add the -Xmx option to the Java invocation command in 
the batch file that invokes the FO processor, for example -Xmx500m if you 
want to allow the FO processor to use 500MBytes of memory. "

I've just realised that doesn't cover font configuration, but it should get 
you started.

HTH, John.