Re: Looking for PDF version of the dia manual

["James K. Lowden" <jklowden schemamania org>]

On Sat, 1 Feb 2003 18:11:09 +0200, Steffen Macke <sdteffen web de> wrote:
> Could someone with a better docbook setup send
> me a PDF version of the current dia manual? I would like to
> include it in the win32 release. I just can't get the images to
> work... 

My setup has exactly the same symptoms as Steffen's.  

Steffen told me he's using db2pdf.  My system is different: I have
openjade, jadetex, dvips, and ps2pdf.  

openjade produces a LaTeX file.  jadetex includes the definitions for the
macros present in openjade's output, and invokes LaTeX, which of course
invokes TeX.  LaTeX, however, complains about not finding the graphics
files, vis:

<quote>
This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (Web2C 7.3.1)
(dia-manual.tex
JadeTeX 2000/06/20: 2.20
(/usr/pkg/share/texmf/tex/latex/psnfss/t1ptm.fd)
Elements will be labelled
Jade begin document sequence at 19
(dia-manual.aux) (/usr/pkg/share/texmf/tex/latex/cyrillic/ot2wncyr.fd)
(/usr/pkg/share/texmf/tex/latex/cyrillic/t2acmr.fd)
(/usr/pkg/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/ts1cmr.fd)
(/usr/pkg/share/texmf/tex/latex/hyperref/nameref.sty)
(/usr/pkg/share/texmf/tex/latex/psnfss/t1phv.fd) [1.0.3] [2.0.3]
(/usr/pkg/share/texmf/tex/latex/psnfss/ts1ptm.fd) [3.0.3] [4.0.3] [5.0.3]
[6.0.3] [7.0.3] [8.0.3]

! LaTeX Error: File `graphics/home_network' not found.

See the LaTeX manual or LaTeX Companion for explanation.
</quote>

I don't know anything about LaTeX, but I'll keep looking into it.  From
the error message, it would seem that something needs to be included in
the file or on the command line to tell it where to look for its input
files.  The relevant chunk of the LaTeX file that openjade processes:

{1}\def\ScaleY%
{1}\def\EntitySystemId%
{graphics/home_network}\def\NotationSystemId%
{PNG}}\endPar{}\endNode{}\endNode{}\endPar{}\endSeq{}\endDisplayGroup{}\e
ndNode{
}
  \endPar{}\endNode{}\endSeq{}\endDisplayGroup{}\endNode{}\Node%

It might be a matter of tools, but it's clearly not a matter of just
Steffen's tools.  

Regards, 

--jkl