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[xmlroff] xmlroff independent of PDFlib

[Tony G. <Ton...@Su...>]

The version of xmlroff currently in CVS compiles and runs without any
dependency on PDFlib if you use the --disable-pdflib flag when you run
configure.

Similarly, it compiles and runs without GNOME Print if you use
--disable-gp.

It currently defaults to using PDFlib instead of GNOME Print purely
because xmlroff originally used PDFlib.

I intend to shortly release this version as xmlroff 0.2.3 (ideally on
July 4 -- Independence Day in the USA), and to follow that with an
xmlroff 0.3.0 that defaults to using GNOME Print and requires you to
enable PDFlib support if you want it.

I would appreciate it if someone else could also try out the CVS
version before I package it up and announce it.

Regards,


Tony Graham
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Re: [xmlroff] xmlroff independent of PDFlib

[Dave M. <da...@da...>]

On Wed, 2003-07-02 at 11:54, Tony Graham wrote:
> The version of xmlroff currently in CVS compiles and runs without any
> dependency on PDFlib if you use the --disable-pdflib flag when you run
> configure.
> 

Does the CVS version of xmlroff still depend on PangoPDF?  I'm
downloading it now, but am on a slow dialup connection :-(

How up-to-date is http://xmlroff.sourceforge.net/building.html ?

Thanks!

Dave Malcolm
www.conglomerate.org

Re: [xmlroff] xmlroff independent of PDFlib

[Tony G. <Ton...@Su...>]

Dave Malcolm wrote at  2 Jul 2003 15:12:41 +0000:
 > Does the CVS version of xmlroff still depend on PangoPDF?  I'm
 > downloading it now, but am on a slow dialup connection :-(

Yes, xmlroff still depends on PangoPDF.  PangoPDF now has a GNOME
Print backend.

xmlroff uses Pango to lay out the blocks of text.  It actually uses
the PangoPDF version of Pango because PangoPDF has the PDFlib and
GNOME Print backends.  The goal of PangoPDF is to become obsolete, but
because of issues with the build order of pangogp w.r.t. Pango and
GNOME Print, the GNOME Print backend isn't cooked enough to just
submit as an enhancement request patch to Pango.

Note that the PDFlib backend won't be submitted to Pango, since Pango
wouldn't accept it anyway.

I now have an itch to write an SVG backend out of irritation with
GNOME Print, but there's currently no software for viewing multi-page
SVG since the SVG Print WD is too new.  Maybe there will be by the
time I manage to actually scratch that itch.

 > How up-to-date is http://xmlroff.sourceforge.net/building.html ?

It's up-to-date for the released xmlroff 0.2.2.  It would need to
mention GNOME Print and the option of disabling GNOME Print or PDFlib
usage for it to be accurate for the unreleased xmlroff 0.2.3.

Regards,


Tony Graham
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Sun Microsystems Ireland Ltd                       Phone: +353 1 8199708
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Re: [xmlroff] xmlroff independent of PDFlib

[Charles B. <cbo...@hi...>]

I successfully compiled the latest CVS version of xmlroff. However the
latest CVS version of pangopdf is missing modules/indic/indic-ft2.c (I
retrieved it from the tarball and it worked). I haven't had time to do
any testing but it looks good so far.

C. Bozeman

On Wed, 2003-07-02 at 06:54, Tony Graham wrote:
> The version of xmlroff currently in CVS compiles and runs without any
> dependency on PDFlib if you use the --disable-pdflib flag when you run
> configure.
> 
> Similarly, it compiles and runs without GNOME Print if you use
> --disable-gp.
> 
> It currently defaults to using PDFlib instead of GNOME Print purely
> because xmlroff originally used PDFlib.
> 
> I intend to shortly release this version as xmlroff 0.2.3 (ideally on
> July 4 -- Independence Day in the USA), and to follow that with an
> xmlroff 0.3.0 that defaults to using GNOME Print and requires you to
> enable PDFlib support if you want it.
> 
> I would appreciate it if someone else could also try out the CVS
> version before I package it up and announce it.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> 
> Tony Graham
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Re: [xmlroff] xmlroff independent of PDFlib

[Tony G. <Ton...@Su...>]

Charles Bozeman wrote at  2 Jul 2003 22:51:43 -0500:
 > I successfully compiled the latest CVS version of xmlroff. However the
 > latest CVS version of pangopdf is missing modules/indic/indic-ft2.c (I
 > retrieved it from the tarball and it worked). I haven't had time to do
 > any testing but it looks good so far.

Thanks.  I've added indic-ft2.c to CVS.

Regards,


Tony Graham
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XML Technology Center - Dublin
Sun Microsystems Ireland Ltd                       Phone: +353 1 8199708
Hamilton House, East Point Business Park, Dublin 3            x(70)19708