Hi Tim, I agree with you that the quality of a page typesetted with LateX is _very_ high, but I think it would be _very_ difficult to introduce a LateX typesetting phase in a production worflow of a traditional publishing house. In other environment this could definitely be a good solution.
regards, __peppo PS: I don't want to start a flame on typesetting engines!!! On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 4:03 PM, Tim Arnold <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > Just curiousity here, but what about going instead to LaTeX from DocBook > instead of InDesign? > > I can't imagine someone needing higher typographic quality than that. > Wouldn't that bypass the problem of fo, indesign, antennahouse et al.? In my > experience the DBLaTeX workflow is very high quality, no matter the technical > content of the document. > > --Tim >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Ivan Ristic [mailto:[email protected]] >> Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 2010 9:26 AM >> To: Giuseppe Bonelli >> Cc: [email protected] >> Subject: [docbook-apps] InDesign typography advantage [Was: Re: [docbook- >> apps] DocBook and InDesign] >> >> On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 10:52 AM, Giuseppe Bonelli >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> > >> > ... >> > >> >> Hi Giuseppe, >> >> >> > I will definitely have to do some work on this as I have some clients >> > who are not confortable with the typographycal quality you can >> > actually get with FO, even using the AntennaHouse formatter, and >> > therefore need a path going from DB to InDesign. >> >> Out of interest, what typographic features do your clients seek in >> InDesign that are not in FOP? To clarify, I am not asking how InDesign >> is better :) >> >> Also, in what ways is Antenna House's processor better than others (e.g., >> FOP)? >> >> -- >> Ivan Ristic >> ModSecurity Handbook [http://www.modsecurityhandbook.com] >> SSL Labs [https://www.ssllabs.com/ssldb/] >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] >> For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] >> > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
