James Elliott wrote: > > The first one seems to be a bug, which I hope can be fixed easily in a > future release. I needed to change my paper size to US Letter for PDF > generation, and found instructions online that pointed me at Options ? > Customize Configuration ? Change Document Conversion Parameters? I added > a paper.type parameter to the ?Convert to PDF, PostScript? group, and > all was fine. (Incidentally, I?m very impressed with how cleverly this > dialog links to the DocBook XSL online documentation.) > > The problem occurred when I left the editor and relaunched it later. > Upon opening my DocBook document, I was greeted with the attached error > message (in case the attachment doesn?t make it through the mailing > list, a the content reads: ?Cannot load customization of configuration > "DocBook" from "/Users/jim/Library/Application > Support/XMLmind/XMLEditor4/custom/~44oc~42ook/conf": file > /Users/jim/Library/Application > Support/XMLmind/XMLEditor4/custom/~44oc~42ook/conf:1:42:Parse Error: > Invalid encoding name "MacRoman".? (I am using XXE on a Mac, latest OS > and Java versions.) And sure enough, my custom document conversion > parameter settings were missing.
This is indeed a bug. It is specific to the Mac. This bug is in fact a regression which appeared with version 4. > By opening that configuration file in a text editor, and changing the > encoding declaration to "UTF-8", I was able to launch XMLmind and > successfully open my DocBook document, retaining my custom parameter > settings. But I should not have to do that; I didn't ask XMLmind to save > that document with a MacRoman encoding; there's no reason I'd want > anything other than UTF-8 for my own documents, let alone internal > documents used by the application. Can this be fixed in the future? Sure. It will be fixed in next release. (Should be released in a couple of weeks.) > Until then is there a workaround I can apply to prevent it happening? Unfortunately, no. > Or do I have to keep tweaking these documents in a text editor? Yes. Sorry for that. > > As an aside, the file name is weird. Why encode the capital D and B in > "DocBook" as "~44oc~42ook"? Can that be fixed too? The online > descriptions of manual customization I found suggested the directory > should be named more readably. > The files generated by "Options|Customize Configuration" are not meant to be viewed and/or edited by the users (well, unless when XXE generates buggy config files). Hand-written customizations of existing configurations should reside in "/Users/jim/Library/Application Support/XMLmind/XMLEditor4/addon/"
