On Mon, 2009-02-16 at 11:49 +0000, Derick Rethans wrote: > On Fri, 13 Feb 2009, Alexandru Stanoi wrote: > > > Kore Nordmann wrote: > > > > > > Find the PDF generation requirements document for the document component > > > attached. > > > > > > This document offers a first discussion base for a requirements > > > specification of PDF generation, which is on the roadmap for this > > > release cycle. It does not involve reading PDF (which would mean > > > converting PDF to Docbook). > > > > > > The design and implementation of the PDF generation will be discussed > > > once we agreed on the requirements. > > > > From the requirements and the discussion I see it is a complicated > > thing to do docbook to PDF conversion. And I think it will be similar > > with docbook to ODF. > > > > My question is why not do the ODF support first, then use existing tools > > to convert ODF to PDF? This way you don't have to do the same (hard) > > work twice. > > One of the reasons is that the external tools incur a great amount of > dependencies.
There are docbook to ODF xsl templates that do not really require any
additional stuff except zip'ing the stuff.
CYA Arne
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