doc: use xmlto pdf

Yaakov (Cygwin/X) yselkowitz@users.sourceforge.net
Sat Jun 26 00:02:00 GMT 2010


On Fri, 2010-06-25 at 23:14 +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> The reason that I changed that to docbook2pdf at one point was that
> creating a PDF from the docs never worked for me before.
> 
> And with your patch it also doesn't work for me on two different Linux
> systems with different xmlto versions (0.0.18 and 0.0.23).  Here's what
> happens on Fedora 13, the result is practically the same on the older
> system.  Maybe you know a solution?

I was able to duplicate this on a linux VM; it appears to be a problem
with the passivetex backend.  If I force the dblatex backend, then it
works, but requires xmlto >= 0.0.21[1].  Could you try the attached
patch instead?


Yaakov

[1] 0.0.21 is shipped in F-10, Debian squeeze, Ubuntu 9.10, and newer.

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