This page details the PDF build of the boost documentation.

Currenly builds in doc/pdf should be stable when XEP is used as the FO processor.

Downloads of PDF's for the last release are available from sf download page at ​http://sourceforge.net/projects/boost/files/.

SVN commit ​51104 to trunk provides the basic support: improved fo.xsl stylesheet, tweaked individual Jamfiles so they find their images etc when being built as a PDF, and adds doc/pdf/Jamfile.v2 to build all boost libraries that can be as individual PDF's.

The following default build options have been added to the fo.xsl stylesheet customisation layer:

• No indent on body text (we need all the horrizontal space we can get for code blocks).
• Left and right page margins 0.5in - a little small, but as above we need all the space we can get.
• Paper type is A4 - it's an ISO standard, and just a little smaller than US letter, so should print OK on both.
• Draft mode is turned off so we don't go after draft.png just in case.
• SVG graphics are used for admonishments.
• Default path to search for images (if not overridden in a library's Jamfile) is the SVN repository.

TODO's

• Currently only RenderX's XEP FO processor will build all the docs correctly, Apache FOP is *still* not mature enough :-(
• Error handling in FO processors is currently verging on non-existant, it's currently necessary to check the build log manually for missing images and suchlike. Detecting truncation/overflow of content requires manual proof reading of the PDF's which is clearly impractical for "all of Boost".

Changelog

• ​51104: Initial version of PDF Build.
• ​51133: Fix Bimap image DPI's.
• ​51142: Fix Thread lib Jamfile.
• ​51147: Fix Boostbook XML so it generates valid FO.
• ​51218: Fix Quickbook markup in Optional and Numeric/Convertion libraries.
• ​51260: Fixes Boostbook install targets.
• ​51261: Adds external link rewrite capabilities.
• ​51284: Fixes PDF naming, fixes external links, adds more libraries.
• ​51328: Update FO formatting to improve table formatting and allow long lines of code to wrap with hyphenation.
• ​51332: Update FO formatting (take 2!) to improve table formatting and allow long lines of code to wrap with hyphenation.