Re: problem creating PDF

[Stefan Kost <ensonic hora-obscura de>]

hi,

Kuang-Chun Cheng schrieb:
> 
> 
> On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 4:25 AM, Kuang-Chun Cheng
> <kccheng linuxdaq-labs com <mailto:kccheng linuxdaq-labs com>> wrote:
> 
>     Thanks for reply.
> 
>     On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 4:08 AM, Stefan Kost
>     <ensonic hora-obscura de <mailto:ensonic hora-obscura de>> wrote:
> 
>         hi,
> 
>         Kuang-Chun Cheng schrieb:
>         > Hi,
>         >
>         > I can use gtk-doc to create HTML web page successfully.
>         > However, when I use command
>         > "docbook2pdf myapp-docs.sgml" to create PDF file, I got a lot
>         of error
>         > like these:
> 
> 
> After looking at script source code of both /usr/bin/docbook2pdf and
> /usr/bin/jw directly,
> I add an options "-e no-valid" to docbook2pdf.   Command
> 
> docbook2pdf -e no-valid myapp-docs.sgml
> 
> can generate the PDF :-)  I still don't know how "-e no-valid" will
> affect the output
> PDF, but so far it's good enough for me.
> 
> Also, option "-e no-idref" will also generate the PDF too.
> 
Thanks for testing this. I will see if I can either filter the invalid ids when
generating pds or integrate such an option as well.

Stefan

> 
> Regards
> KC
>  
> 
> 
>         >
>         > ...
>         > jade:/home/kc/myapp/docs/manual/xml/onet.xml:24:72:X: reference to
>         > non-existent ID "gint"
>         > jade:/home/kc/myapp/docs/manual/xml/onet.xml:82:72:X: reference to
>         > non-existent ID "gint"
>         > jade:/home/kc/myapp/myapp/docs/manual/xml/mtimer.xml:28:15:X:
>         reference
>         > to non-existent ID "gdouble"
>         > jade:/home/kc/myapp/myapp/docs/manual/xml/mtimer.xml:144:95:X:
>         reference
>         > to non-existent ID "gdouble"
>         > ...
>         >
>         > My app is a C application use glib2 ... the "gint" and
>         "gdouble" is part
>         > of my
>         > API's function prototype.
>         >
>         > How could I avoid such error ?  Thanks a lot.
> 
>         The generated pdf document should still be okay. gtkdoc add
>         cross-references to
>         other libraries. For html, they are resolved, but intermediately
>         they are
>         invalid. That what jade complains about here.
> 
> 
>     My problem is ... jade will complain:
>     jade:I: maximum number of errors (200) reached; change with -E option
>     make: *** [pdf] Error 8
> 
>     and no PDF will be generated.
>     If I can generate the PDF with broken cross-references ... that will be
>     good enough for me.  Any idea how to do that ?  Thanks
> 
>     Regards
>     KC
>      
> 
> 
> 
>         I plan to improve format support in 1.12.
> 
>         Stefan
> 
> 
>