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To: Hiroki Sato <hrs@eos.ocn.ne.jp>
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Subject: Re: pdfjadetex, Fatal format
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excellent, both methods work perfectly.

thanks again,

-S-

On Sun, 19 Aug 2001, Hiroki Sato wrote:

> <paul@saxa.georgetown.edu> wrote
>   in <Pine.LNX.4.33.0108181300230.12262-100000@saxa.georgetown.edu>:
>
> paul> Say i have my file: firstbook.sgml
> paul> Do i still convert this to tex with jade? or do i need to change the jade
> paul> command?
> paul> Then how do use the pdftex command to convert the file to pdf?
>
>  Yes, you need to convert .sgml to .tex with jade first, then
>  compile .tex with pdftex '&pdfjadetex'.  In short:
>
>  a) get .dvi or .ps format
>
>     sgml --(jade)--> tex --(tex '&jadetex')--------> dvi --(dvips)--> ps
>
>  b) get .pdf format
>
>     sgml --(jade)--> tex --(pdftex '&pdfjadetex')--> pdf
>
>  To use pdftex, execute the following command:
>
>   % pdftex '&pdfjadetex' firstbook.tex
>
>  after sgml->tex conversion with jade.
>
>  The primer is incorrect on that point (s/tex/pdftex/).
>  Probably doc/share/mk/doc.docbook.mk would help.
>
>  In addition, as the alternative, you can use print/dvipdfm in FreeBSD
>  Ports Collection to create .pdf from .dvi (in that case, only jadetex
>  is needed).
>
> --
> | Hiroki Sato  <hrs@FreeBSD.org>
> |              <hrs@eos.ocn.ne.jp>
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