Pete J. wrote:
I am trying to convert a document that
was generated from DocBook with the standard DocBook FO stylesheets.
One problem that see with the converted output is that the page headers
seem to be rendered with a very narrow bounding box and they come out all
messed up.
I have never seen this problem and I don't know how to reproduce it
using the standard DocBook XSL stylesheets.
See for example, the following files which have all been generated using
XMLmind XSL-FO Converter out of DocBook documents using latest standard
DocBook XSL stylesheets.
http://www.xmlmind.com/foconverter/_distrib/doc/user/userguide.docx
http://www.xmlmind.com/foconverter/_distrib/doc/user/userguide.rtf
http://www.xmlmind.com/foconverter/_distrib/xslutil/doc/help/help.docx
http://www.xmlmind.com/foconverter/_distrib/xslutil/doc/help/help.rtf
Note that if you have a lot of text in your running headers/footers,
then 1) this well-known issue has several DocBook workarounds 2) the
generated headers/footers will be also messed up, in various other ways,
by all the other XSL-FO processors (Apache FOP, RenderX XEP, etc). I
mean, there is no way to automatically fit a lot of text into a small
header/footer.
Another issue is that the page number references in the front
matter are all zero. I have a screen shot that shows the problem.
If this problem only occurs with RTF, DOCX, ODT, then it's normal.
Please refer to the following FAQ to understand why.
http://www.xmlmind.com/foconverter/faq.html#fields
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I use the page-number-citation object to print the number of pages in my
document, but the displayed value is always 0 when I load the document
in MS-Word. How can I get the correct value?
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Another problem is that the text in my figures is missing. The figures are
done in SVG.
Sorry but once again, I have never seen this problem and I don't know
how to reproduce it.
See for example, the following DOCX has been generated using XMLmind
XSL-FO Converter and some of its figures are done in SVG:
http://www.xmlmind.com/ditac/_distrib/doc/manual/manual.docx
http://www.xmlmind.com/ditac/_distrib/doc/manual/manual.rtf
I have attached a screen shot of the output for that as well.
Please use XMLmind XSL Utility to convert your DocBook document. It
comes with everything needed (DocBook XSL stylesheets, SVG support,
MathML support, etc) to convert your DocBook document to other formats.
Also make sure to use the DocBook 4 (=DocBook having no namespace) XSL
stylesheets if your document is a DocBook 4 one and the DocBook 5
(=DocBook having a namespace) XSL stylesheets if your document is a
DocBook 5 one.
XMLmind XSL Utility makes it easy using the right --bundled with the
app-- DocBook XSL stylesheets.
If you are already using XMLmind XSL Utility, then I'm afraid that your
evaluation ends here.
I would like to have the output RTF and Word XML files use paragraph
styles. That seems to require support for that in the stylesheet that
generates the FO input file. Do you know of a way to do that with DocBook
without requiring additional coding of the stylesheet on my part?
No, this is technically not possible. The XSLT stylesheet must have
*designed* to generate XSL-FO having named styles. This feature is
impossible to retrofit in the standard DocBook XSL-FO stylesheets
See "XSL-FO extension for generating named styles"
http://www.xmlmind.com/foconverter/_distrib/doc/user/user_styles.html
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