Re: Bug#81592: eps images in docbook-stylesheets
Taketoshi Sano <sano@debian.org> writes:
> The problem is, the eps format is required for PS output,
> and the pdf format is required for PDF output. This is probably
> the requirements from jade/jadetex.
That's not a problem -- its how LaTex (and thus JadeTeX) works.
Call it a "misfeature".
> More, jadetex (/usr/share/texmf/tex/jadetex/base/jadetex.ltx)
> uses graphicx package and its \includegraphics[]{} command.
>
> I suppose this latex graphicx package can not handle gif format.
> Maybe pdfjadetex can not handle gif, too.
No, it can only handle PDF.
Again, these are LaTeX issues, not docbook-stylesheets or even JadeTeX
issues. I agree its a pretyt major pain in the butt to deal with all
this from the "document engineer" standpoint, but I don't know what I
can do about it.
> > > So, in order to use print.pdf style, we need pdf files for printing
> > > of admon-graphics as well as eps files.
> > >
> > > Adam, will you plan to provide those printing format files of
> > > the same graphics as current gif ones ? Or do you think that separate
> > > graphics package (such as docbook-stylesheets-print-graphics) is better ?
> >
> > That's absurd. First, since docbook-stylesheets doesn't contain
> > print.dsl, then it is not a problem in docbook-stylesheets! Secondly,
> > any issues like this seem to me to be more a problem of the way the
> > SGML is formatted than anything that can be done in the
> > docbook-stylesheets level.
>
> If docbook-stylesheets package can not provide the required format,
> then sgmltools-lite package must install them into the admon graphics
> path: /usr/lib/sgml/stylesheet/dsssl/docbook/nwalsh/images/
>
> But I think the contents of that directory should be provided by
> docbook-stylesheet package. Am I wrong ?
Oh -- you're asking for PDF versions of those GIF files?
If that's what your asking for, sure, I could provide EPS and PDF
formats -- that's what you need, right?
> Maybe the most smart way is to enable the on-the-fly format conversion
> in sgmltools-lite or jade or jadetex. But it will takes longer.
Well, now we're going beyond the formatting stylesheet and intot he
domain of a whole SGML build system (which is much more than what even
sgmltools-lite does, although it kinda tries to do that).
BTW, I have a nice package called preheat that I think could be
extended to manage image formats with a little bit of agreement/work
by document authors. Let me know if you wanna take a look at that.
it's scheme based and rather than sgmltools approache, which I didn't
like, it generated Makefile rules.
> This report will be reassigned to sgmltools-2, but I think the docbook-
> stylesheets package should have the graphics in required format unless
> jade/jadetex really do not need them.
No problemo -- what required formats, please?
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.....Adam Di Carlo....adam@onShore.com.....<URL:http://www.onShore.com/>
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