Re: PostgreSQL User's Guide as A4 Postscript?

No, I have not generated one. To make hardcopy, I generate an RTF
file, then import into ApplixWare, insert graphics, clean up page
breaks, and insert page numbers into the table of contents. This
last step must be done manually (e.g. typing *all* of the page
numbers in) due to an apparent mishandling of the RTF by Applix. If
I can get that fixed some day then it should be fairly easy to
generate an A4 version.

Sounds like a ugly way to do it. What is the original document
format?

If someone wanted to take on A4 hardcopy as a project, I would be
happy to support them.

Maybe I will, depending on the document format. :-)
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No, I have not generated one. To make hardcopy, I generate an RTF
file, then import into ApplixWare, insert graphics, clean up page
breaks, and insert page numbers into the table of contents. This
last step must be done manually (e.g. typing *all* of the page
numbers in) due to an apparent mishandling of the RTF by Applix. If
I can get that fixed some day then it should be fairly easy to
generate an A4 version.

Sounds like a ugly way to do it. What is the original document
format?

The original document format is DocBook sgml. It is processed by jade
into RTF, which I then use to clean up page breaks etc, and finally
save a Postscript file.

The process is actually quite reasonable, since imho no completely
automated scheme will do the best job of setting page breaks. The only
ugliness is the problem with getting a proper ToC from the imported
RTF. Applix does not propagate the styles correctly to the headers and
body of the text, making all text "Header1" in style and therefore
unable to pick out the actual headers to make a new ToC.

I recall that importing into M$Word gets the styles marked, but there
were other problems which seemed to even things out.

If someone wanted to take on A4 hardcopy as a project, I would be
happy to support them.

Maybe I will, depending on the document format. :-)

If I can get the ToC problem solved, then generating A4 is almost
trivial. To duplicate my doc generation environment would require a
jade/docbook installation, and the purchase of ApplixWare (relatively
inexpensive; SuSE linux comes with it).

However feel free to explore other possibilities for RTF->hardcopy
with formatting adjustments.

- Thomas

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Thomas Lockhart lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu
South Pasadena, California

What about DocBook->LaTeX->PS?

There is a DocBook->TeX->PS path available (nothing for LaTeX however,
for reasons which are clear to the implementers). When I started, it
did not offer an acceptable solution, since it had problems handling
tables. There were other non-fatal problems too in sizing TeX to be
able to handle large documents.

Some of the worst tabular problems have been repaired, or are at least
not as bad as before, but my belief is that it does not quite match
the RTF->(fixup)->PS route.

- Thomas

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Thomas Lockhart lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu
South Pasadena, California