Re: 8.2.0 pdf

On Thu, 7 Dec 2006, Devrim GUNDUZ wrote:

> BTW, I first built A4 pdf by running "make postgres.pdf" . Then per a
> suggestion at #postgresql, I converted it to ps by ps2pdf. Then, I ran:
>
> ps2pdf -paper letter postgres.ps
>
> to convert it to US format. Is it the right way to do that?
>

No, converting to postscript loses all the PDF formatting goodness that
makes it readable instead of just printable.

I edited
/usr/share/sgml/docbook/stylesheet/dsssl/modular/print/dbparam.dsl and
changed

(define %paper-type% "A4")

to

(define %paper-type% "USletter")

and rerunning the entire multi-day generation.

Surely this isn't ideal and the correct way to do this is to set it in a
stylesheet or pass it in some other way, but this worked for me.

Kris Jurka