When I run:
$ xsltproc /usr/share/sgml/docbook/xsl-stylesheets/fo/docbook.xsl exp <
foo.fo
i get :
[paulb@malloc docbook]$ pdflatex foo.fo
This is pdfTeX, Version 3.14159-1.00b-pretest-20020211-HO20020731 (Web2C
7.3.7)
(./foo.fo{/usr/share/texmf/pdftex/config/pdftex.cfg}
LaTeX2e <2001/06/01>
Babel <v3.7h> and hyphenation patterns for american, french, german, ngerman,
b
asque, italian, portuges, russian, spanish, swedish, nohyphenation, loaded.
! LaTeX Error: Missing \begin{document}.
See the LaTeX manual or LaTeX Companion for explanation.
Type H <return> for immediate help.
...
l.1 <
?xml version="1.0"?>
? exit
No pages of output.
Transcript written on foo.log.
Whats going on?
-Paul
On Thursday 28 November 2002 06:02 pm, Michael JasonSmith wrote:
> On Thu, 2002-11-28 at 17:49, Paul wrote:
> > I am trying to convery docbook files intopdfs using docbook to pdf. It
> > keeps telling me I need a catalog file. Where do I find the catalog file?
>
> Hmmm. There is no direct way (that I know of) to convert a DocBook file
> into a PDF. There *is* a "db2pdf" script that is shipped with some
> distributions, but I think that it is a bit old... To get a PDF out of
> a DocBook you
> 1. Convert the DocBook into a FO file, and then
> 2. Convert the FO into PDF.
>
> To do (1) use "xsltproc"[1]:
> xsltproc /usr/share/sgml/docbook/stylesheet/xsl/nwalsh/fo/docbook.xsl \
> foo.xml > foo.fo
> The location of the stylesheet will vary from system to system, so try
> locate docbook.xsl
> With any luck you will find one in the "fo" directory.
>
> To do (2) you need a program that understands FO and outputs PDF. There
> are two that I know of: the Java-based FOP and LaTeX. I use the latter.
> pdflatex foo.fo
> For the above to work you will need the "passivetex" packages
> installed. You may find that some of the memory limits in the
> "texmf.cnf" are too low; trial and error will tell you which ones need
> to be increased.
>
> [1] "xsltproc" ships with GNOME.
