Help in creating a PDF using Doxygen

MasterGod · Post by **MasterGod** » Thu Apr 03, 2008 12:57 pm

I'm trying to make a PDF using doxygen but I'm not sure what to do.
The site says I need TeX so I downloaded it and installed it. I've checked the LaTeX checkbox with doxygen and it generated a bunch of files.

How can I make a PDF from those files?

Thanks.

P.S
Using Windows XP.

Virion · Post by **Virion** » Thu Apr 03, 2008 1:31 pm

http://www.stack.nl/~dimitri/doxygen/starting.html

http://freshmeat.net/projects/htmldoc

MasterGod · Post by **MasterGod** » Thu Apr 03, 2008 4:05 pm

Virion wrote:http://www.stack.nl/~dimitri/doxygen/starting.html

http://freshmeat.net/projects/htmldoc

The latter doesn't do a great job but I'll try a newer version.

About the former link:

LaTeX output
The generated $\mbox{\LaTeX}$ documentation must first be compiled by a $\mbox{\LaTeX}$ compiler (I use a recent teTeX distribution). To simplify the process of compiling the generated documentation, doxygen writes a Makefile into the latex directory.

The contents and targets in the Makefile depend on the setting of USE_PDFLATEX. If it is disabled (set to NO), then typing make in the latex directory a dvi file called refman.dvi will be generated. This file can then be viewed using xdvi or converted into a PostScript file refman.ps by typing make ps (this requires dvips).

To put 2 pages on one physical page use make ps_2on1 instead. The resulting PostScript file can be send to a PostScript printer. If you do not have a PostScript printer, you can try to use ghostscript to convert PostScript into something your printer understands.

Conversion to PDF is also possible if you have installed the ghostscript interpreter; just type make pdf (or make pdf_2on1).

To get the best results for PDF output you should set the PDF_HYPERLINKS and USE_PDFLATEX tags to YES. In this case the Makefile will only contain a target to build refman.pdf directly.

"make pdf" - there isn't such command!!

MasterGod · Post by **MasterGod** » Thu Apr 03, 2008 4:27 pm

RTF
Generated if GENERATE_RTF is set to YES in the configuration file.

Note that the RTF output probably only looks nice with Microsoft's Word 97. If you have success with other programs, please let me know.

I didn't noticed that at first but it seems I can compile it into a .doc file and I have a way to convert .doc files to PDF so it seems that that's what I'll do.
This also makes possible to edit the file before it becomes PDF

Well, thanks anyways.