[publican-list] Publican 3.0.0 is here at last!

[Jeff Fearn]

On 10/31/2012 07:55 PM, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> Hi,
>
> great to see 3.0 published!
>
> On Wed, 31 Oct 2012, Ruediger Landmann wrote:
>> * PDF styles now optimised for wkhtmltopdf, completing the
>> replacement of FOP as our PDF mechanism. This gives us truly
>> international PDF support for the first time, including support for
>> Indic languages and right-to-left languages
>
> Has the FOP implementation been entirely removed or is it just the default
> that changed?

FOP support is still in place. When publican runs it checks for 
wkhtmltopdf, if it finds it, it uses that, otherwise it assumes FOP is 
installed.

> How does Fedora package wkhtmltopdf?

It's not in Fedora.

> It's still a major pain to get it
> packaged in a Debian policy compliant way since it requires a specific
> patched version of Qt...

For this reason.

AIUI Rudi has it on his to do list.

Cheers, Jeff.

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Jeff Fearn <jfearn at redhat.com>
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Red Hat Asia Pacific Pty Ltd
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