Moved XEP over from WinXP VM to Linux
Posted by mholmes on 31 Mar 2010 in Activity log
One of the few remaining reasons for working in the XP VM was that I had the old oXygen/XEP system from 2005 set up there for ScanCan rendering. I've finally got around to porting that over to my Jaunty setup. This was the process:
- Copied the whole RenderX folder from Program Files to a shared dir.
- Ran the installer jar file that was in there, which installed for Linux without problems, allowing me to specify the licence.xml file which was in the program folder.
- Copied all the fonts over from the fonts subdir of the original XEP folder to the same folder in the install location.
- Opened the xep.xml configuration file, original and new, and added my customizations, copying them from the original file to the new.
- Set up the appropriate transformations in oXygen.
- Edited the path_config.xsl file to point to the correct location for the images file on my machine (needs to be hard-coded).
Tested and seems to be working (and much faster than on Windows). Haven't yet tested a build of a full volume; I'll do that when we get close to having volume 19 ready.