"Andy Little" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > "David Abrahams" > >> The question is, what is the route from DocBook format to PDF format >> (FOP), and of what quality is the resulting PDF (poor, if it works at >> all)? > > There are various routes to pdf from Docbook, not just FOP: > > For example a google for DocBook pdf brings up this: > > http://www.linuxfocus.org/English/May2000/article152.shtml#152lfindex3
Yes, they're going through LaTeX, which as I suggested is the only scalable, reliable route to reasonable looking PDF. > Anyway, not being any master of pdf docs, the output from FOP seems OK to me. > The Docbook HTML output is OK. Apparently I can produce other formats (e.g > CHM) > too if I want. > There is much in DocBook that I personally dont know yet, and I am sure that > some time spent with it would produce better results both for HTML and PDF. DocBook is a semantic format and learning more about it won't help you control the details of PDF (or HTML) generated from it. -- Dave Abrahams Boost Consulting www.boost-consulting.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Boost-docs mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe and other administrative requests: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/boost-docs
