Hi Jonny, we are useing dblatex (http://dblatex.sourceforge.net/ ) for some documents and produce with this way high quality PDFs.
A lot of your requirements you can achive with this approach. We are also using the KOMA-script-styles without tweaking the Latex-file. With your Latex-background I would suggest dblatex. Regards Robert -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: John Rossmann [mailto:[email protected]] Gesendet: Donnerstag, 10. Februar 2011 11:41 An: [email protected] Betreff: [docbook-apps] PDF customization questions from newbie Hi, recently I got started with my first docbook document, and I am very satisfied with the great possibilities to publish a number of output formats from a single structured document. Coming from LaTeX, I am looking for possibilities to customize high quality PDF output. For example, I'd like to modify paragraph indentation, font sizes, line spacing, page numbering, page headers and footers etc. Ideally I am looking for a gallery of document layouts from which I can choose one and maybe fine tune, as it is possible under LaTeX by choosing from a large number of document classes (like e.g. koma script). Some help is given at http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/PrintOutput.html. But those options are too limited to do things like putting a logo into the page header, numbering frontmatter pages like i,ii,iii,iv,... and only the main document 1,2,3,..., putting a light yellow background below verbatim (code) text boxes, etc. (If someone points me to an explanation how to achieve these three options - logo, page numbering, code background color - I might have a better idea where to look for other solutions in the future.) Should I go the DBLatex way and change the intermediate LaTeX file to use the desired document class? Or can I find an idiot-proof PDF customization tutorial somewhere that doesn't require me to learn the low-level PDF language? Thank you Johnny --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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]
