On 11/08/2012 09:19 PM, Norman Dunbar wrote:
Hi All,
On 08/11/12 04:50, Ruediger Landmann wrote:
Getting rid of FOP is a worthy goal indeed.
I know there's a lot of "hatred" for fop here, and I suppose if you have
to maintain it, then it's most likely justified, but....
I need to create documents that will be printed out. They need to be in
PDF format and fop does a pretty good job. (But then again, I'm not
maintaining it - so I feel your pain!)
My documents have indices. And these have page numbers as the cross
reference, so I get this in my printed copy:
Introduction......7
Concepts..........32
Recursion.........98
When I last tried wkhtmltopdf, I discovered that the indices were
treated the same as the HTML (obvious really) in that the page numbers
were replaced by section titles:
Introduction......1 Introduction
Concepts..........2 Concepts
Recursion.........8 Recursion
The PDFs we generate, even with FOP, are not specifically for printing.
There have always been issues with it and we specifically state they are
for electronic distribution not printing.
So with that in mind, P3 doesn't get wkhtmltopdf to generate the toc, it
uses the HTML TOC DocBook generates. To change that requires tweaking
the XSL to stop making the HTML TOC and switching on a command line
parameter to get wkhtmltopdf to make the toc.
<bang><bang><bang>
$ wkhtmltopdf --header-spacing 5 --footer-spacing 3 --margin-top 20
--margin-left 15mm --margin-right 15mm --header-html
/usr/share/publican/header.html toc index.html test.pdf
Now I have a PDF with two TOCs and the new TOC before the "front" page
... eeew ... but I can see the wkhtmltopdf toc so that's good.
Chapter 4. Creating a document.........26
..4.1. Files in the book directory.....28
Seems to work as expected, we'd need to pretty up the styles and look at
the numerous toc command line options.
Certainly seems practicable to support print PDF specifics.
Cheers, Jeff.
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Jeff Fearn <[email protected]>
Senior Software Engineer
Infrastructure Engineering & Development (AEU)
Red Hat Asia Pacific Pty Ltd
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