Hi all,

I have a question about documentation generation. We have a lot of documentation in the apt format (and some in docbook), used to generate a maven site. A customer has the requirement to have this documentation in an offline format, PDF would be nice.

I've browsed around a lot and experimented a bit, but I'm currently lost on what my best shot would be.

1) The maven-doxia-plugin and doxia's "book" support (http://maven.apache.org/doxia/book/) seem to do exactly what I want. At least in theory, because in practice it all looks unfinished. Generating latex documents is the only thing I could more or less get to work (that is with manual postprocessing to fix images and characters that should be escaped but were not).

2) I explored (a little) the idea to write all documentation in docbook (iso apt) and use something else (maven plugin or not) to generate pdf from the docbook files. The problem is that site generation from docbook files doesn't support docbook5 (yet?).

3) I could simply print the generated html pages from the site generation to pdf documents.

What would be the best way to go? I think the first is conceptually the best. The second (using docbook 4.x) has to be investigated further, but it also implies rewriting most doc in docbook (iso apt).

Other ideas are very welcome.

Thanks in advance
Jan

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