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######################################################################
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ldp_print - print tool/script for DocBook SGML/XML documents
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Copyright (C) 2002-2000 - Greg Ferguson (gferg@metalab.unc.edu)
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This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
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it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
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the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
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(at your option) any later version.
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This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
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GNU General Public License for more details.
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You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
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along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
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Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA
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######################################################################
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This process/script is used in the production environment for the
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LDP. It relies on the HTMLDOC software package (GPL'ed) which can be
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obtained from the Easy Software Products (c) web site:
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http://www.easysw.com/htmldoc/
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This process creates a PDF variant from the single-file HTML
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representation of a DocBook SGML (or XML) instance. The simple
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wrapper script (ldp_print) assumes that the file was created using
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{open}jade in a manner similar to:
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jade -t sgml -i html -V nochunks -d $style $fname > $fname.html
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Give the script the filename as an argument. It will then parse the
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file into 'title.html' and 'body.html' and send each to htmldoc (as
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the corresponding title page and body of the document).
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CAVEATS
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=======
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o Assumes perl is in /usr/bin; adjust if necessary
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o You may need to specify where the htmldoc executable resides.
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The script assumes it's within your $PATH.
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o If you want Postscript as an output variant, uncomment the
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appropriate lines (see below).
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o Relies on output from a DocBook instance created via DSSSL/{open}jade!
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o Cleans up (removes) the intermediate files it creates (but not the
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PDF or Postscript files, obviously!)
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o Works silently; PDF (PostScript) will be created in the same directory
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as was specified for the input (single-file HTML) file.
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o Provided without warranty or support!
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o I ran into a problem with htmldoc v1.8.8 which required a source
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code change (I was getting a core dump from the htmldoc process).
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Here is the change required:
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htmldoc/ps-pdf.cxx :
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3662,3665d3661
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< /* gjf = 11Oct2000 */
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< if( temprow == NULL )
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< break;
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<
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UPDATE (2001-10-10): It appears that later versions of htmldoc
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have this problem corrected. The patch is not required.
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Greg Ferguson / gferg (at) metalab.unc.edu
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11 Jan 2000
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