Hi,
I'm the dblatex maintainer, so I'm a bit biased, but if you know latex you
will be free to customize the latex layout as you wish.
I think most of the elements are supported, except the HTML tables. The
limitations are those imposed by latex: the latex table limitations, the
footnotes limitations especially in tables (even if workarounded in
dblatex), the legacy UTF8 support limitations when pdftex is used, the
one-page only floats, the float positioning (often frustating for non-tex
users), some hyphenation weirdness, and so on.
But on the other side dblatex deals with all the tex stuff: graphic
conversions, makeindex use, the ability to use xetex as backend. It even
supports some advanced features (full callout support on graphics and on
listings, olinking between a set of documents) that I'm not sure fop-based
solutions support without some extensions.
In a word, if you know and like latex you'll be in a friendly world.
Regards,
BG
On Thu, 10 Feb 2011 13:28:39 +0100, John Rossmann <[email protected]>
wrote:
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
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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
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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
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