- A web server (I use Apache 2, with mpm-itk[1] to separate the ugliness
from the rest of the server installation).
- ImageMagick (http://www.imagemagick.org/).
- - Perl (http://www.perl.org/), with the CGI module.
+ - Perl (http://www.perl.org/), with the CGI and HTML::Entities modules.
- OpenOffice.org (http://www.openoffice.org/ -- doh), tested with v1.1
only. See below for special configuration needed.
- GhostScript, probably almost any halfway recent version; newer ones
stuff, you might even need the latest AFPL version from CVS, if you
can live with its license.) http://www.ghostscript.com/ has it all.
- vim (http://www.vim.org/).
+ - gnome-web-photo, currently only available from GNOME's CVS
+ (http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/gnome-web-photo/, do
+ cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@anoncvs.gnome.org:/cvs/gnome co gnome-web-photo
+ to check out).
+ - You might also want the Microsoft core fonts (or equivalent font set)
+ installed; it seems to make a big difference especially for OpenOffice.org.
+ (http://corefonts.sourceforge.net/)
[1]: http://home.samfundet.no/~sesse/mpm-itk/
nohup Xvfb :25 &
+(Note that gnome-web-photo seems to be a bit picky about the color depth.
+If you get all black images in your PDFs, add "-screen scrn 800x600x24"
+to the Xvfb command line and see if it helps.)
+
Then, you'll need to log in as the CGI user (yes, yuck :-) ), run
OpenOffice.org for the first time, accept the license etc. Then you'll have
to add a new printer -- use spadmin (in the same directory as soffice), add
as command line, and your output directory as appropriate. Also remember to
set the page size if you don't happen to prefer Letter already.
+
+Special vim configuration
+
+You might want a simple .vimrc for your user as well; mine reads
+
+ set fileencodings=utf-8,iso8859-1
+ syn on
+ set bg=dark
+
+(Yes, for some reason bg=dark looks better when printing. Don't ask me why.)
+
+
Happy hacking :-)
-- Steinar H. Gunderson <sgunderson@bigfoot.com>, http://www.sesse.net/