PDF Generation broken.

Gavin Henry ghenry at suretecsystems.com
Thu Jan 27 11:20:19 UTC 2005


<quote who="Tim Waugh">
> On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 06:32:34PM -0800, Karsten Wade wrote:
>
>> I'm poking Tim for some input.
>
> The xmltex and passivetex applications are no longer supported
> upstream.  I think the new way is to use some sort of ConTeXt-based
> parser, but don't know the details.
>
>> I don't fully understand the issues.  IIRC, we were discussing using fop
>> instead of the tex backend for pdf generation.  Is one of our barriers
>> that there is no fop package for Fedora?  And we want it compiled with
>> gcj?
>
> If we had a fop package for Fedora, and someone was willing to make
> the necessary adjustments to xmlto, I feel sure that things would be
> bound to improve.

When do we start?

>
> Tim.
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