On 11/24/2010 09:34 AM, maxwell wrote: > I haven't done a *comparison*, but we routinely use dblatex + XeTeX (= a > Unicode-aware version of LaTeX) to produce multi-lingual PDF documents. > We chose this route because it wasn't clear that the FOP route would > deal well with some of the scripts we needed, such as the Nasta'liq > version of the Arabic script.
I'll mention one other thing that's nice about using dblatex: there is a ton of useful LaTeX "packages" out there. We have a few landscape tables in our grammars, and they're always a pain in the neck if you're viewing the PDF. You can spare the neck pain by picking the monitor up and turning it sideways, by telling Adobe Reader--and probably most other PDF readers--to rotate the image sideways; just click on the menu item. But even nicer, it turns (pun intended) out that you can embed a piece of code in the PDF that tells the Reader to rotate any given page. And there's a LaTeX package which, given a landscape mode page (which dblatex produces when it encounters a table with the 'orient="land"' attribute), inserts that code into the PDF. A one-line change to our style sheet now produces PDFs that tell Reader to automagically rotate landscape pages. I was impressed! Mike Maxwell --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
