I will describe here a problem that I have with ubuntu 10.04. I am not shure that this is really a ubuntu problem. I am posting here just for the sake of clarifing my mind a bit.

So...doing:

marco@lap2-ciampix:~/git-gnome/gimp-help-2$ make pdf-it [SRC] src/preface/authors.xml
*** Making PDF (it) ...
/usr/share/dblatex/lib/dbtexmf/dblatex/grubber/util.py:8: DeprecationWarning: the md5 module is deprecated; use hashlib instead import md5
Build the book set list...
xsltproc --xinclude --xincludestyle -o /tmp/tmp75G3db/doclist.txt doclist.xsl /home/marco/git-gnome/gimp-help-2/xml/it/gimp.xml Build the listings...
xsltproc --xinclude --xincludestyle -o /tmp/tmp75G3db/listings.xml --param current.dir '/home/marco/git-gnome/gimp-help-2/xml/it' /usr/share/dblatex/xsl/common/mklistings.xsl /home/marco/git-gnome/gimp-help-2/xml/it/gimp.xml xsltproc --xinclude --xincludestyle -o gimp.rtex --param current.dir '/home/marco/git-gnome/gimp-help-2/xml/it' --param listings.xml '/tmp/tmp75G3db/listings.xml' custom.xsl /home/marco/git-gnome/gimp-help-2/xml/it/gimp.xml XSLT stylesheets DocBook - LaTeX 2e (0.2.12-4) =================================================== literal not supported in programlisting or screen literal not supported in programlisting or screen Processing Bibliography
Output Mode: all
Processing Bibliography - Bibliodiv
Processing Bibliography - Bibliodiv
Missing character 최
Missing character 지
Missing character 희
Missing character 島
Missing character 本
Missing character 良
Missing character 太
Missing character 蔡
Missing character 芊
Missing character 杨
Missing character 红
Build gimp.pdf
built-in module pdftex registered
no support found for ifxetex
no support found for fontspec
no support found for xltxtra
no support found for fontenc
no support found for inputenc
no support found for fancybox
built-in module makeidx registered
no support found for babel
no support found for cmap
no support found for docbook
no support found for unicode
built-in module bibtopic registered
building additional files...
checking if compiling is necessary... the output file doesn't exist
pdflatex -interaction=batchmode gimp.tex This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-1.40.10 (TeX Live 2009/Debian) restricted \write18 enabled.
entering extended mode
libpng warning: Ignoring attempt to set cHRM RGB triangle with zero area libpng warning: Ignoring attempt to set cHRM RGB triangle with zero area libpng warning: Ignoring attempt to set cHRM RGB triangle with zero area libpng warning: Ignoring attempt to set cHRM RGB triangle with zero area libpng warning: Ignoring attempt to set cHRM RGB triangle with zero area libpng warning: Ignoring attempt to set cHRM RGB triangle with zero area libpng warning: Ignoring attempt to set cHRM RGB triangle with zero area libpng warning: Ignoring attempt to set cHRM RGB triangle with zero area libpng warning: Ignoring attempt to set cHRM RGB triangle with zero area libpng warning: Ignoring attempt to set cHRM RGB triangle with zero area libpng warning: Ignoring attempt to set cHRM RGB triangle with zero area libpng warning: Ignoring attempt to set cHRM RGB triangle with zero area libpng warning: Ignoring attempt to set cHRM RGB triangle with zero area libpng warning: Ignoring attempt to set cHRM RGB triangle with zero area libpng warning: Ignoring attempt to set cHRM RGB triangle with zero area libpng warning: Ignoring attempt to set cHRM RGB triangle with zero area libpng warning: Ignoring attempt to set cHRM RGB triangle with zero area libpng warning: Ignoring attempt to set cHRM RGB triangle with zero area running post-compilation scripts...
processing index /tmp/tmp75G3db/gimp.idx... makeindex -o /tmp/tmp75G3db/gimp.ind -t /tmp/tmp75G3db/gimp.ilg -s /usr/share/dblatex/latex/scripts/doc.ist /tmp/tmp75G3db/gimp.idx This is makeindex, version 2.15 [TeX Live 2009] (kpathsea + Thai support). Scanning style file /usr/share/dblatex/latex/scripts/doc.ist....done (4 attributes redefined, 0 ignored). Scanning input file /tmp/tmp75G3db/gimp.idx.....done (1329 entries accepted, 0 rejected). Sorting entries..............done (15008 comparisons). Generating output file /tmp/tmp75G3db/gimp.ind.....done (1485 lines written, 0 warnings). Output written in /tmp/tmp75G3db/gimp.ind. Transcript written in /tmp/tmp75G3db/gimp.ilg. gimp.aux MD5 checksum changed
gimp.toc MD5 checksum changed
pdflatex -interaction=batchmode gimp.tex This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-1.40.10 (TeX Live 2009/Debian) restricted \write18 enabled.
entering extended mode
libpng warning: Ignoring attempt to set cHRM RGB triangle with zero area libpng warning: Ignoring attempt to set cHRM RGB triangle with zero area libpng warning: Ignoring attempt to set cHRM RGB triangle with zero area libpng warning: Ignoring attempt to set cHRM RGB triangle with zero area libpng warning: Ignoring attempt to set cHRM RGB triangle with zero area libpng warning: Ignoring attempt to set cHRM RGB triangle with zero area libpng warning: Ignoring attempt to set cHRM RGB triangle with zero area libpng warning: Ignoring attempt to set cHRM RGB triangle with zero area libpng warning: Ignoring attempt to set cHRM RGB triangle with zero area libpng warning: Ignoring attempt to set cHRM RGB triangle with zero area libpng warning: Ignoring attempt to set cHRM RGB triangle with zero area libpng warning: Ignoring attempt to set cHRM RGB triangle with zero area libpng warning: Ignoring attempt to set cHRM RGB triangle with zero area libpng warning: Ignoring attempt to set cHRM RGB triangle with zero area libpng warning: Ignoring attempt to set cHRM RGB triangle with zero area libpng warning: Ignoring attempt to set cHRM RGB triangle with zero area libpng warning: Ignoring attempt to set cHRM RGB triangle with zero area libpng warning: Ignoring attempt to set cHRM RGB triangle with zero area running post-compilation scripts...
[index] the index /tmp/tmp75G3db/gimp.idx has changed processing index /tmp/tmp75G3db/gimp.idx... makeindex -o /tmp/tmp75G3db/gimp.ind -t /tmp/tmp75G3db/gimp.ilg -s /usr/share/dblatex/latex/scripts/doc.ist /tmp/tmp75G3db/gimp.idx This is makeindex, version 2.15 [TeX Live 2009] (kpathsea + Thai support). Scanning style file /usr/share/dblatex/latex/scripts/doc.ist....done (4 attributes redefined, 0 ignored). Scanning input file /tmp/tmp75G3db/gimp.idx.....done (1329 entries accepted, 0 rejected). Sorting entries..............done (15008 comparisons). Generating output file /tmp/tmp75G3db/gimp.ind.....done (1485 lines written, 0 warnings). Output written in /tmp/tmp75G3db/gimp.ind. Transcript written in /tmp/tmp75G3db/gimp.ilg. gimp.aux MD5 checksum changed
gimp.toc MD5 checksum changed
pdflatex -interaction=batchmode gimp.tex This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-1.40.10 (TeX Live 2009/Debian) restricted \write18 enabled.
entering extended mode
libpng warning: Ignoring attempt to set cHRM RGB triangle with zero area libpng warning: Ignoring attempt to set cHRM RGB triangle with zero area libpng warning: Ignoring attempt to set cHRM RGB triangle with zero area libpng warning: Ignoring attempt to set cHRM RGB triangle with zero area libpng warning: Ignoring attempt to set cHRM RGB triangle with zero area libpng warning: Ignoring attempt to set cHRM RGB triangle with zero area libpng warning: Ignoring attempt to set cHRM RGB triangle with zero area libpng warning: Ignoring attempt to set cHRM RGB triangle with zero area libpng warning: Ignoring attempt to set cHRM RGB triangle with zero area libpng warning: Ignoring attempt to set cHRM RGB triangle with zero area libpng warning: Ignoring attempt to set cHRM RGB triangle with zero area libpng warning: Ignoring attempt to set cHRM RGB triangle with zero area libpng warning: Ignoring attempt to set cHRM RGB triangle with zero area libpng warning: Ignoring attempt to set cHRM RGB triangle with zero area libpng warning: Ignoring attempt to set cHRM RGB triangle with zero area libpng warning: Ignoring attempt to set cHRM RGB triangle with zero area libpng warning: Ignoring attempt to set cHRM RGB triangle with zero area libpng warning: Ignoring attempt to set cHRM RGB triangle with zero area running post-compilation scripts...
[index] the index /tmp/tmp75G3db/gimp.idx did not change no new compilation is needed
running last-compilation scripts...
'gimp.pdf' successfully built

the errors:

Missing character 최 ....

are due to this:

marco@lap2-ciampix:~/git-gnome/gimp-help-2/src$ grep -R "최" * preface/authors.xml: Choi Ji-Hui(최지희) (Korean) marco@lap2-ciampix:~/git-gnome/gimp-help-2/src$ grep -R "本" * preface/authors.xml: SimaMoto,RyōTa (島本良太) (Japanese) marco@lap2-ciampix:~/git-gnome/gimp-help-2/src$ grep -R "蔡" * preface/authors.xml: Cai Qian (蔡芊) (Chinese)

that apparently I am not able to compile correctly inside my italian pdf.

Where is the problem? In Ubuntu or in the makefile or wherelse?

Any hint?