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Bug 332209

Summary: xmlto 0.0.22 cannot generate either Postscript or PDF files from DocBook xml files
Product: Gentoo Linux Reporter: Alex Buell <alex.buell>
Component: Current packagesAssignee: Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: major    
Priority: High    
Version: 10.1   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
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Description Alex Buell 2010-08-11 10:19:34 UTC
If I ask xmlto 0.0.22 to generate either Postscript or PDF files from my Docbook XML files, it will silently fail without any errors on console. Only if I examine the generated tmp.log in the temporary xmlto-* in the /tmp directory do I see that there is a problem, it needs a missing soul.sty file. 

This missing soul.sty file comes from the dev-texlive/texlive-latexextra package which should have been installed when I installed xmlto. I think the ebuild needs updating to ensure that this package is installed if it is not already installed. 

After I installed the missing package, xmlto starts failing with errors. The same DocBook xml files that I use do not have any problems when I generate HTML versions so something else must be wrong but I am not sure.

I have also e-mailed upstream about this and now awaiting an answer at the moment, there might be something else that xmlto needs. 

Also, there is a newer version available upstream (0.0.23). 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. xmlto postscript Framebuffer-HOWTO.xml (yes I wrote that!)
2. xmlto silently fails

After installing missing package (dev-texlive/texlive-latexextra)

1. xmlto postscript Framebuffer-HOWTO.xml
2. xmlto now fails with errors (maybe missing additional packages causing this)
Comment 1 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2010-08-11 10:45:20 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 332203 ***