Re: Jadetex and pdftex problems, sgml file included

[Thomas Porter <txporter at mindspring dot com>]

Eric Bischoff wrote:
> 
> I've found a workaround to Thomas problem with PDF output, but I'm not
> sure I understand it ;-)
> 
> In /usr/share/sgml/docbook/utils-0.5/backends/pdf, please remove the
> test on line 24, so pdfjadetex is unconditionally re-run
> 
> The bug appears only with very simple (unrealistic) docbook files, where
> pdfjadetex is not re-run because of undefined references. This explains
> why I never run into it ;-).
> 
> I don't know why pdfjadetex needs to be re-run if the first run seems
> perfectly enough. Any explanation in private mail welcome (at the end of
> this message the log of the first run is reproduced).

Eric,

Thanks for the work on this, but I determined that my problem was that
pdfjadetex in the rpm was generated with pdftex version 13, not version
14 like I am using.

I ended up downloading the jadetex src.rpm in order to get the
jadetex.ini and pdfjadetex.ini files out of it, then rebuilt the format
files using pdfinitex.

Just a suggestion to the jadetex rpm maintainer:  they might want to
include the .ini files in the binary rpm to allow people to more easily
rebuild their .fmt files if needed.

-- 
Tom Porter                                   txporter@mindspring.com
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