Re: [Gimp-docs] Help building help.

["Ulf-D. Ehlert" <ude88 web de>]

On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 02:41:02PM -0400, john Culleton wrote:
> Elaborate things break more often then simple things. All I want is a
> Gimp Manual in pdf form for version 2.8. I can print this out, put it
> in a ring binder and use it as needed.

Making pdf always was problematic for some languages, the html manual
is IMO a better choice. BTW, do you really want to print some hundred
pages?

> What I got instead was a package with the guts of the manual in xml.

A "package" means you didn't pull the current version from the git
repository?

> I tried autogen, then
> ./configure, and then make.

You must try

        make pdf-en   # "en" for the English version

since pdf is not built by default.
(And making pdf does not require the quickreference.)

> Consistently I get these error messages:
>
> Making all in quickreference
> make[1]: Entering directory
> `/home/safe/Documents/gimp-help-2.8.0/quickreference' make[1]: *** No
> rule to make target `svg/gimp-keys-ca.svg', needed by `svg'.  Stop.
> make[1]: Leaving directory
> `/home/safe/Documents/gimp-help-2.8.0/quickreference' make: ***
> [all-recursive] Error 1

If I remember correctly, this was a bug which has been fixed in the
current version from the git repo.

> I have a project under way and I need to look some things in
> the manual.

What's wrong with the online manual? ;)

Ulf

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