Help on building a pdf file from book sources

[Max Bowsher]

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Célio Cidral Junior wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to build the pdf file from the book sources but I'm getting
> an error (see below). I guess it's because our Internet proxy since it
> requires both user name and password.


> I'm using Cygwin under WinXP.

I do this too, so I know it works.

> $ make pdf
> ../tools/bin/run-fop.sh -fo book/svn-book.fo -pdf book/svn-book.pdf
> ../tools/bin/run-fop.sh: line 11: [: too many arguments
> (Using '../tools/bin/../fop/fop.sh' for FOP)
> ../tools/bin/../fop/fop.sh: line 5: [: too many arguments

The 'too many arguments' errors are caused by your $HOME directory
containing spaces in it's path. This is not a good idea. But is unlikely
to cause the final error.

> [INFO] Using org.apache.xerces.parsers.SAXParser as SAX2 Parser
> [INFO] FOP 0.20.5
> [INFO] Using org.apache.xerces.parsers.SAXParser as SAX2 Parser
> [INFO] building formatting object tree
> [INFO] setting up fonts
> Error creating background image: Error while recovering Image Informations (http
> ://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/images/draft.png) : Connection timed out: con
> nect

This is bizarre.

The XSLT stylesheets shouldn't even have draft mode enabled, so access
to that image should never be attempted.

Max.
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