Problem 1712

Summary:	Text in PDF version of guide not in color
Product:	Documentation	Reporter:	mr.reeves
Component:	Application Developers Guide	Assignee:	Michael Kelsey <kelsey>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	trivial
Priority:	P5
Version:	10.1
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Attachments:	Example 2.3 states "Code modified from the previous example are shown in blue," but the text is all black. HTML version of the same section for comparison

Description mr.reeves 2015-02-09 22:41:23 CET

The text in the PDF version of the Application Developers Guide appears only as black while the HTML version uses colored text to highlight some material. See attachment demonstrating this in Example 2.3 of the guide. I was glad to see I could label the severity of this issue as "trivial," but I also felt it was worth pointing out even if only to help make future iterations more readily understandable to new users.

Comment 1 mr.reeves 2015-02-09 22:46:56 CET

Created attachment 310 [details]
Example 2.3 states "Code modified from the previous example are shown in blue," but the text is all black.

Comment 2 mr.reeves 2015-02-09 22:49:49 CET

Created attachment 311 [details]
HTML version of the same section for comparison

Comment 3 Michael Kelsey 2015-02-09 23:42:17 CET

Thank you for letting us know about this.  It appears to have been like this back to at least Release 9.4 (December 2009).  I'll try to understand how to configure the XML-to-PDF processor to generate colored text.

Comment 4 Michael Kelsey 2015-02-28 08:16:22 CET

We do not have any color-capable markup in the DocBook XML -> FO conversion.  The FO output is what is used to produce the PDF version of our documentation.  Changing this will require some XML/XSL development effort.

Comment 5 Michael Kelsey 2015-03-25 02:42:47 CET

Modifications to both the HTML and PDF (FO) markup are underway, now that I (think!) have figured out how to propagate color specifications into the PDF.  If I am successful, I will update the 10.1 documenation on the G4 Web site.