making PDF from slides (was: Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: toc frame in slides)

[Baurjan Ismagulov <ibr@gantek.com>]

Sorry for the subject of the previous message, correcting.

Thanks in advance,
Baurjan.

On Mon, Nov 05, 2001 at 03:40:21PM +0200, Baurjan Ismagulov wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying slides DTD. I can generate HTML output without problems
> (expanding/collapsing TOC menus are great, btw), but can't produce a PDF
> with one slide per page (so that I can use mpage to print it). There are
> many messages on this subject in the list archive, but I couldn't find
> any hint to solve my current problem.
> 
> I tried xsltproc 1.0.6 and fop 0.20rc2 with slides 2.0a2 and XSL 1.46e:
> 
> $ xsltproc -o z.fo slides-2.0a2/xsl/fo-plain.xsl z.xml
> Making landscape pages on USletter paper (11inx8.5in)
> No template named "slides" exists in the context named "title" in the "en" localization.
> listitem encountered, but no template matches.
> <snipped four same messages>
> 
> $ JAVA_HOME=/opt/jdk-1.2.2 sh Fop-0.20.2/fop.sh -fo z.fo -pdf z.pdf
> [INFO]: FOP 0.20.2
> [INFO]: building formatting object tree
> [WARN]: property - "alignment-baseline" is not implemented yet.
> [WARN]: property - "font" is not implemented yet.
> <snipped 11 screenfuls of those messages>
> [INFO]: [1]
> <snip>
> [INFO]: [10]
> [ERROR]: >
> <two hours of execution with the same message>
> 
> After I interrupted it, there was a 6-KByte PDF, which neither Acrobat
> Reader, nor GhostView wouldn't open.
> 
> 
> fop itself didn't produce any output at all:
> 
> JAVA_HOME=/opt/jdk-1.2.2 sh -x Fop-0.20.2/fop.sh -xml z.xml -xsl slides-2.0a2/xsl/fo-plain.xsl -pdf z.pdf
> [INFO]: FOP 0.20.2
> [ERROR]: null
> 
> 
> openjade 1.3 with DSSSL 1.73 and jadetex 2.7 (after _a lot_ of errors)
> produce a PDF with red text, slides split between pages and the last
> page's left margin starting from the page edge.
> 
> 
> I also tried both xsltproc+fop and plain fop on DocBook <article>s with
> the same result (I can make PDF with openjade, but not with xsltproc and
> fop).
> 
> I would appreciate any help.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Baurjan.
> 
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