Jeffrey Franks writes:
Can you suggest a solution for a Unix/Linux platform? I have a
table intensive document in DocBook Xml that must get to PDF
somehow. My expectation is that it would look like a real book,
with a real index, and not look ugly.
Too vague a specification. what is
Jeffrey Franks writes:
I realize everyone is doing their best. However, this would be amusing
if there were not so much at stake.
caveat emptor. who ever said it was all easy?
Seems applicable to the deplorable situation we face in order to
get high quality PDF from DocBook Xml.
Hi!
On Tue, 24 Jul 2001, Jirka Kosek wrote:
[...]
Company colourscheme adjustments before I print... My instinct with PDF is
to output to RTF, clean it up, add page breaks, add a nice cover page etc
in Word (I can hear the sharp intake of breath!) and then print to the
Acrobat
Hi!
On Wed, 25 Jul 2001, Nik Clayton wrote:
[...]
DSSSL stylesheets plus pdfjadetex. Unless your tables are really
complicated.
Ok, but if tables become really complicated, you are lost with DocBook
anyway. Substituting a table by a variablelist may be a solution in a
few cases, but
Title: RE: DOCBOOK-APPS: docbook xml - paper based outputs?
The only problem I've had with this approach is that the ToC page numbers
have NOT been generated and I did NOT find a way to update the ToC in
neither Word nor StarOffice. How do I have to do it, so that the ToC shows
up WITH page
At 08:59 25/07/2001, Holger Rauch wrote:
Company colourscheme adjustments before I print... My instinct with
PDF is
to output to RTF, clean it up, add page breaks, add a nice cover page etc
in Word (I can hear the sharp intake of breath!) and then print to the
Acrobat Distiller.
On Tue, 24 Jul 2001, Sebastian Rahtz wrote:
My belief is that there is no reliable, mature, easy-to-use product to
make PDF from Docbook. The nearest might be the Framemaker route,
perhaps via DSSSL, I suspect, but even that is a vale full of tears.
face it, getting high-quality typesetting
On Wed, 25 Jul 2001, Holger Rauch wrote:
The only problem I've had with this approach is that the ToC page numbers
have NOT been generated and I did NOT find a way to update the ToC in
neither Word nor StarOffice. How do I have to do it, so that the ToC shows
up WITH page numbers?
1. Open
Hi,
I've been trying to get graphics into PDF from Docbook.
The tools I am using are OpenJade 1.3 with OpenSP 1.3.4, DSSL stylesheets
1.71 and pdfjadetex from 17/04/2001
I have tried various graphics formats for the imagedata element,
including PNG, JPEG, EPS and PDF. None result in a
Not all of the below has made it into jadetex 3.11 - Here is a patch to
put in the first \nointerlineskip. It is against jadetex-3.11
diff -Naur jadetex-orig/jadetex.dtx jadetex/jadetex.dtx
--- jadetex-orig/jadetex.dtxThu Jul 19
Bradford, Denis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Would this also be the cause of the error below?
java com.icl.saxon.StyleSheet xmldiffmrg.xml htmlhelp.xsl
Error
java.net.MalformedURLException: unknown protocol: d
Transformation failed: run-time errors were reported
You're on Windows,
Michel Goossens [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
DC promised to have a look at it a few weeks back... I agree that for
a general DTD writing the TeX macro code necessary to support it might
not be a good investment.
Note, such an approach is _never_ required. You can use Architectural
Forms
Serge Wroclawski wrote:
On Mon, 16 Jul 2001, Jirka Kosek wrote:
For XML document, modify it to:
jade -d ... -t ... /path/to/xml.dcl doc.sgml
This doesn't work for me.
Any error messages were omitted by jade. Send them, without them it is
hard to figure out problem.
In the past,
Karl Eichwalder writes:
a general DTD writing the TeX macro code necessary to support it might
not be a good investment.
Note, such an approach is _never_ required. You can use Architectural
Forms Processing to map the elements and attributes; cf. David
Megginsons' Book on XML --
Hello,
I got strange results rendering variablelists with FOP (using the 1.41
stylesheets and Saxon 6.4.2 ( or Xalan 2.1 just for verifying this
behaviour )).
It seems to work well if the term is short enough and just one word (I
always wanted just ONE term consisting of sometimes more than
At 17:00 25/07/01 -0400, Kevin Dunn wrote:
-- Original Message --
From: Dave Brooks, BCS Systems [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 00:16:03 +1200
Hi,
I've been trying to get graphics into PDF from Docbook.
Look in the *.log file. TeX will give
What is the cause of the Non-PDF special ignored! message from pdfjadetex ?
Have I a bad installation? I have re-installed but made no difference.
Apart from this message and the blank graphics, it all appears to work.
Dave
--
Well, the path:
[tex] - jadetex - [dvi] - dvips - [ps] - epstopdf - [pdf]
gives me graphics in the PDF;
[tex] - pdfjadetex - [pdf]
doesn't !
Dave
At 13:12 26/07/01 +1200, Dave Brooks, BCS Systems wrote:
Still trying...
I've been editing the TEX file produced by OpenJade and trying
Sebastian Rahtz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I have been around this world for a good few years, and I have only
once met anyone who used architectural forms. Unless you can show me
otherwise, I put it to you that AFs are pure theory.
I tried it along David Megginson's book 'Structuring XML
Hmmm
Well, I have no problems getting a PDF into my DocBook stuff. Of course,
I think I had to modify the DTD to allow format=PDF ...
Dave Brooks, BCS Systems wrote:
Still trying...
I've been editing the TEX file produced by OpenJade and trying various
combinations of \ScaleType,
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