Change 12728
Upgrade ANT doc build infrastructure to assemble PDFs:
- remove non-namespaced DocBook source and add
namespaced DocBook source.
- add Apache FOP 1.1
- copy fonts, images, XSL into _build, establishing new
asset structure. The original structure remains until
all guides using it can be upgraded, and several other
issues can be resolved.
- updated build.xml to allow for per-target build properties.
- upgraded the P4SAG to use the new infrastructure.
- tweaked admonition presentation in PDFs to remove
admonition graphics, and resemble closely the
presentation used in the new HTML layout, including
the same colors.
With these changes, building PDFs involves using a
shell, navigating into the guide's directory (just P4SAG
for now), and executing "ant pdf".
Issues still to be resolved:
- PDF generation encounters several warnings about
missing fonts (bold versions of Symbol and ZapfDingbats),
and a couple of locations where the page content
exceeds the defined content area.
- Due to issues within Apache FOP, PDF generation emits
a substantial amount of output that is not easily suppressed
without losing important warning information.
- Apache FOP's interface to ANT does not expose a way
to set the font base directory. The current configuration does
work under Mac OSX, but further testing on Windows will
need to be done to determine if the relative paths defined
continue to work. The workaround is for Windows users to
customize the fop-config.xml to provide absolute system
paths to the required fonts.
- HTML generation needs further browser testing, and
exhibits broken navigation on iOS browsers within the
TOC sidebar.
- A number of PDF and HTML presentation tweaks still
need to be made, for example: sidebars, gui* DocBook
tags, whitespace, section separation, etc.
- remove non-namespaced DocBook source and add
namespaced DocBook source.
- add Apache FOP 1.1
- copy fonts, images, XSL into _build, establishing new
asset structure. The original structure remains until
all guides using it can be upgraded, and several other
issues can be resolved.
- updated build.xml to allow for per-target build properties.
- upgraded the P4SAG to use the new infrastructure.
- tweaked admonition presentation in PDFs to remove
admonition graphics, and resemble closely the
presentation used in the new HTML layout, including
the same colors.
With these changes, building PDFs involves using a
shell, navigating into the guide's directory (just P4SAG
for now), and executing "ant pdf".
Issues still to be resolved:
- PDF generation encounters several warnings about
missing fonts (bold versions of Symbol and ZapfDingbats),
and a couple of locations where the page content
exceeds the defined content area.
- Due to issues within Apache FOP, PDF generation emits
a substantial amount of output that is not easily suppressed
without losing important warning information.
- Apache FOP's interface to ANT does not expose a way
to set the font base directory. The current configuration does
work under Mac OSX, but further testing on Windows will
need to be done to determine if the relative paths defined
continue to work. The workaround is for Windows users to
customize the fop-config.xml to provide absolute system
paths to the required fonts.
- HTML generation needs further browser testing, and
exhibits broken navigation on iOS browsers within the
TOC sidebar.
- A number of PDF and HTML presentation tweaks still
need to be made, for example: sidebars, gui* DocBook
tags, whitespace, section separation, etc.
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