Micheal, thanks very much for the help, unfortuanlly it didnt work, even more conflicts....
-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.
