Date: Sun, 28 Apr 2002 20:19:39 -0700 From: Murray Stokely <murray@FreeBSD.org> To: "Bruce A. Mah" <bmah@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Tom Rhodes <darklogik@pittgoth.com>, freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG, re@FreeBSD.ORG, nik@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Handbook PDF buildable again Message-ID: <20020429031939.GR28352@freebsdmall.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>
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That machine also needs to have 'RLE=1' set on the command line to reduce the size of the generated PDF and PostScript files dramatically. - Murray On Sun, Apr 28, 2002 at 08:06:03PM -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. > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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