svn commit: r1058828 - /forrest/trunk/site-author/content/xdocs/docs_0_90/upgrading_09.xml

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Message-ID <[email protected]>
Author: crossley
Date: Fri Jan 14 01:18:42 2011
New Revision: 1058828

URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=1058828&view=rev
Log:
Add a "upgrade" note about the new PDF plugin.
Issue: FOR-1077

Modified:
    forrest/trunk/site-author/content/xdocs/docs_0_90/upgrading_09.xml

Modified: forrest/trunk/site-author/content/xdocs/docs_0_90/upgrading_09.xml
URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/forrest/trunk/site-author/content/xdocs/docs_0_90/upgrading_09.xml?rev=1058828&r1=1058827&r2=1058828&view=diff
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--- forrest/trunk/site-author/content/xdocs/docs_0_90/upgrading_09.xml (original)
+++ forrest/trunk/site-author/content/xdocs/docs_0_90/upgrading_09.xml Fri Jan 14 01:18:42 2011
@@ -163,6 +163,35 @@
         (added in v0.9 - <a href="site:faq/sitemap-entities">FAQ</a>).
       </p>
     </section>
+    <section id="pdf">
+      <title>Improved PDF output plugin</title>
+      <p>
+        Many plugins have been upgraded and there are some new plugins.
+        See the <a href="site:changes">Changes</a> and the <a href="site:pluginVersions/overview">Plugins</a>
+        documentation.
+      </p>
+      <p>
+        In particular, the PDF output plugin has many improvements, uses a newer Apache FOP etc.
+        It is much more configurable, See its plugin documentation.
+      </p>
+      <p>
+        However there is a minor, but annoying, problem.
+        See <a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FOR-1077">FOR-1077</a>.
+        Forrest (via Cocoon) re-generates every document. Every PDF now gets differences
+        due to some internal metadata dates, even though its content might not have changed.
+        When the documentation set is deployed, e.g. via svn, these changed files will also
+        be deployed.
+      </p>
+      <p>
+        For the Forrest project website, we decided to stop (via skinconf.xml) using PDFs
+        for every page and do it only for some specific documents.
+      </p>
+      <p>
+        Remember that if you need to use an old version of any plugin, then it can be
+        specified in forrest.properties by appending the version number (e.g. "-0.2" or "-0.3")
+        to the required plugin name.
+      </p>
+    </section>
     <section id="docs">
       <title>Notes about documentation</title>
       <p>
@@ -172,8 +201,8 @@
         there are example snippets of sitemaps which have not yet been upgraded
         to reflect the changes to the sitemaps and the separation of some core
         stuff into plugins. See issues
-        <a href="http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FOR-546">FOR-546</a> and
-        <a href="http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FOR-922">FOR-922</a> and
+        <a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FOR-546">FOR-546</a> and
+        <a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FOR-922">FOR-922</a> and
         others.
       </p>
     </section>
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