From owner-freebsd-doc Sun Apr 28 20:10:17 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from pittgoth.com (14.zlnp1.xdsl.nauticom.net [209.195.149.111]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F51F37B419; Sun, 28 Apr 2002 20:10:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost ([192.168.1.6]) by pittgoth.com (8.12.3/8.12.3) with SMTP id g3T3ABSW024284; Sun, 28 Apr 2002 23:10:12 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from darklogik@pittgoth.com) Date: Sun, 28 Apr 2002 23:18:11 -0400 From: Tom Rhodes To: bmah@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG, re@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Handbook PDF buildable again Message-Id: <20020428231811.5446ad1f.darklogik@pittgoth.com> In-Reply-To: <200204290306.g3T3639b019056@intruder.bmah.org> References: <200204290025.g3T0PxvH017781@intruder.bmah.org> <20020428204033.6adbff47.darklogik@pittgoth.com> <200204290306.g3T3639b019056@intruder.bmah.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.7.4 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.5) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sun, 28 Apr 2002 20:06:03 -0700 "Bruce A. Mah" wrote: > If memory serves me right, Tom Rhodes wrote: > > On Sun, 28 Apr 2002 17:25:59 -0700 > > bmah@FreeBSD.ORG (Bruce A. Mah) wrote: > > > > > FYI: The recent upgrade of ghostscript-gnu (7.05 is current) > > > seems to have fixed whatever problem was plaguing the PDF Handbook > > > build. On a system with the most recent ghostscript-gnu, I just > > > finished a successful build of all docs in (among other formats) > > > PDF, and, well,"it works". > > > > > > intruder:handbook% ls -ls *pdf* > > > 4048 -r--r--r-- 1 bmah staff 4126931 Apr 28 16:07 book.pdf > > > 2448 -r--r--r-- 1 bmah staff 2476723 Apr 28 16:02 book.pdf.gz > > > 2448 -r--r--r-- 1 bmah staff 2476853 Apr 28 16:02 book.pdf.zip > > > > > > Bruce. > > > > Big yay for this! And a big yay to lioux (it was him right?) who > > fixed ghostscript-gnu for us! > > Ah, lest anyone think that this instantly means we're going to have a > PDF (English) Handbook on the FTP site...this won't help until the > machine that normally builds this file has its ghostscript-gnu port > updated. But at least there's a solution. > > Bruce. > My main concern here, my friend, was that we have a buildable version of the handbook. Which, regardless of what site needs what updating, is a great step in the ``forward'' direction... Now, follow-up reply's to this post is a waste of time, I just want to say that its great the handbook PDF is buildable again, and that at least a solution has been found. -- Tom (Darklogik) Rhodes www.FreeBSD.org -The Power To Serve www.Pittgoth.com -Pittgoth Discussion Portal trhodes@{Pittgoth.com, FreeBSD.org} PGP key by www: http://www.pittgoth.com/~darklogik/darklogik.key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message