On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 19:46:36 -0400, Jody Goldberg wrote: > I'll have to do some research into how to produce pdf from docbook > using free tools. It's going to be somewhat messy on OSX.
It's messy on GNU/Linux as well; I've had few tries at this. Currently, my money is on dbcontext (DocBook to ConTeXt, http://dblatex.sourceforge.net/). Have a look at http://www.xinara.org/~ray/tmp/gnumeric.pdf to examine the output quality. (The file doesn't include images; that's due to lack of time, not due to a dbcontext limitation) On the positive side, it runs non-interactively and can actually process larger DocBook files (unlike e.g. the jadetex based "db2pdf" script). On the negative side, it is based on ConTeXt, i.e. requires a rather complete TeX setup, and needs some of the settings to be set quite a bit higher than their defaults. If you're happy with the output quality, I can see what I can do about building PDF documentation this way in a more automated fashion and with proper graphics. HTH, Ray -- TV is the worst of both worlds. It's not as good at words as radio is because the pictures are a distraction which demand attention, and it's not as good as cinema because the pictures are not nearly as good. Douglas Adams in http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/06/21/1217242 _______________________________________________ gnumeric-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnumeric-list
