We're using *publican *to convert our DocBook XML files to PDF (and
HTML). *publican
*(under the covers) used to use *fop *to do the actual PDF conversion, but *fop
*use has been deprecated by *publican *since a very long time.
Nowadays *wkhtmltopdf
*should be used instead of *fop*.

For Windows, there's only a very old version of *publican *available (with
an even older version of *fop*).  There are no efforts by the *publican*
developers to support Windows.  With these older versions, PDF build of
ooRexx docs seems to still work, although with many thousands of
errors/warnings.  From my tests I assume that building to HTML won't work
on Windows.

For Linux, the newer *publican *versions only support *wkhtmltopdf*, no
*fop*. Building PDF currently doesn't work, as we'd have to switch from *fop
*to *wkhtmltopdf* first.  Using the latter I expect to get better results
for PDF build, the possibility for HTML builds, and, if needed, support
from the publican community.

In order get out of the dead-end situation with publican on Windows I
suggest we make the change to *wkhtmltopdf* and do our doc builds on Linux
only.

What do you think?  Any other suggestions?


Is anyone of you willing to dig into this and do the actual switch?
I know that Michael Mayne has been doing something into that direction -
Michael can you help with this?


Ref: https://www.redhat.com/archives/publican-list/2016-August/msg00000.html
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