Jirka Kosek wrote:
> Hartmut Holzgraefe wrote:
> 
> 
>>creating the PDF manual from plain HTML doesn't lead to good results
>>IMHO, e.g. your version has rather large fonts, 'prev' and 'next' links
>>on the pages and still one page per function
>>
>>IMHO a PDF version is only usefull if it is optimized for printing
> 
> 
> Yes, exactly. I have just build PDF using DSSSL stylesheets. You can
> look on result at 
> http://www.kosek.cz/temp/manual.pdf
>

yeah, this looks way better :)

> It's about 5,6 MB. I used common Jade with output to RTF and then MS
> Word and Adobe Distiller to get PDF. 

still nothing we can do within the automatic builds on the web server :(

> One year ago I also tried to get PDF via XSL-FO and FOP and PassiveTeX.
> I didn't remember details, but I was successful in general.

PassiveTeX is labeled as "proof of concept" for a reason, it isn't a
complete FO implementation

FOP had serious problems last time i tried it

if it has improved over the last 6 month it might be worth another try,

have to summon Sebastian ;)




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