[publican-list] RHEL 6 packages for publican 2.8 and 3.0.0

[Jeffrey Fearn]

----- Original Message -----
> Morning Jeff,
> 
> On 08/11/12 23:44, Jeff Fearn wrote:
> > The PDFs we generate, even with FOP, are not specifically for
> > printing.
> Ah! I don't understand why not then, because so far, mine have been
> just
> perfect for printing out. Maybe my docs are a lot simpler than the
> ones
> you guys need to produce at Red Hat etc.
> 
> > There have always been issues with it and we specifically state
> > they are
> > for electronic distribution not printing.
> I honestly have never seen that warning! I must learn to read better
> I
> suspect. However, working in IT, I notice the first thing people do
> with
> a PDF is print it out.
> 
> > So with that in mind, P3 doesn't get wkhtmltopdf to generate the
> > toc,
> Hmm, I'd forgotten about the TOC. I was a bit focussed on my indices
> at
> the back of the book.
> 
>  > ...

D'oh! My wires were crossed. The same issue exists for the index as the TOC, the HTML doesn't know about pages, however it looks like we'd have to be crafty to get that working, much more work.

> > Certainly seems practicable to support print PDF specifics.
> Which is a good thing, seeing as PDF is a pretty decent format for
> print
> and DocBook can be used to create real life dead tree books. It
> should
> be possible!
> 
> Just so that you are all aware, I do appreciate the hard work you
> guys
> do in keeping Publican as good as it is - thanks. If I could
> contribute,
> I would. (Actually, I did, a chapter for the manual on installing
> Publican 2.9 on OpenSuse -
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=787243)

Nice! My Saved Search was missing bugs outside the main component, I've adjusted it so these won't get bypassed in the future.

Cheers, Jeff.

-- 
Jeff Fearn <jfearn at redhat.com>
Senior Software Engineer
Infrastructure Engineering & Development (AEU)
Red Hat Asia Pacific Pty Ltd
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