[fpc-devel] building pdf documentation

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Wed, 9 Sep 2009, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:

> Michael Van Canneyt het geskryf:
>>
>> make pdf works fine here.
>
> As my other post suggested, on my side it doesn't. Sorry about that
> email - I was venting some steam. :-/
>
> [...after a string coffee...]
>
> At the latex prompt (after some missing file error), I just kept
> pressing enter. Eventually it dropped me back to the linux prompt. I
> have a few PDF files  now. They contained the pages and
> screenshots/images, but not text. I guess the missing file latex
> complained about was a font? I search via http://packages.ubuntu.com/
> for the package that contains a file like 'ptmr8t', but no such package
> exists, so I have no clue where to get that from. :-(
>
> I'm using Ubuntu 9.04 (64bit).

So am I...

> BTW:
> Is there a way of only "compiling" the ref.tex to PDF? I don't need the
> fpdoc, rtl etc documentation for now. The readme.txt files doesn't
> mention if this is possible.
>
> I tried:
>  $ make ref
>  $ make ref.tex
>  $ make ref.tex pdf
>  ...and a few more variants...
>
> None of them yielded any results.

For make you need to type the target. Thus

make ref.pdf

or

make rtl.pdf

and so on.

Michel.