| From: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
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| To: | Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
| Cc: | pgsql-docs <pgsql-docs(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: PDF building with FOP |
| Date: | 2017-03-11 03:19:45 |
| Message-ID: | 20170311031945.dwj5w7lai26lvf4z@alvherre.pgsql |
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Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> The questions for those who are building PDFs are
>
> - Can you make the build work?
It worked fine for me after installing the "fop" package. No need to
rerun configure.
> - Does the output look OK?
It looks generally sane in a very quick skim, modulo the problems we've
always had with PDFs, such as tables 9-44 and 9-45 being completely
unusable.
> Some tips: FOP is extremely memory hungry. You will probably have to
> fiddle with some Java memory settings to make it work. One way is by
> edting ~/.foprc and set something like
>
> FOP_OPTS='-Xmx1200m' # fop upstream binary installation
> ADDITIONAL_FLAGS='-Xmx1200m' # centos/fedora
> JAVA_ARGS='-Xmx1200m' # debian
I didn't have to change anything; it just worked out of the box.
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Álvaro Herrera https://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Remote DBA, Training & Services
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