Thank you, Robert. Your reply gives me more confidence that dblatex is the right choice. But... are there any disadvantages compared to the xslt- and fop-processors that seem to be the recommended way to convert XML to PDF? Are there any docbook elements that are not supported by dblatex? Does dblatex give me more or less flexibility compared to the fop-processor?
Johnny ----- Original Message ---- From: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> To: [email protected]; [email protected] Sent: Thu, February 10, 2011 12:08:58 PM Subject: AW: [docbook-apps] PDF customization questions from newbie 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]
