Harish Krishnaswamy wrote: > I have a DocBook document that has quite a few images that I would like > to convert to a PDF and maintain all the styles of the document and > maintain the resolution of the images. I tried the FO Converter but > couldn't get the converter to keep the style or the resolution of the > images. Would this be possible if I get a professional edition?
No, if you use free, OpenSource, FOP (http://xml.apache.org/fop/). Yes, if you use expensive, commercial, RenderX XEP (http://www.renderx.com/). Now some explanations. XMLmind XML Editor converts DocBook documents by using Norman Walsh's XSLT style sheets to generate XSL-FO Formatting Objects and then, uses a XSL-FO processor to convert these objects to the target format. Currently, XMLmind XML Editor supports 3 XSL-FO processors: * XFC (http://www.xmlmind.com/foconverter/) which is used to create RTF and WordprocessingML (MS-Word 2003) files. * FOP which is used to create PostScript and PDF files. * RenderX XEP which is used to create PostScript and PDF files. In order to make XMLmind XML Editor use one of these XSL-FO processors, you need to download the corresponding plug-in from http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/plugins.shtml * The XFC plugin is self-contained and is free to use if you have Professional Edition. * The FOP plugin is self-contained and is free to use if you have Professional Edition. * The XEP plugin is *not* self-contained and requires you to purchase XEP (3.7+ not 4.0) from http://www.renderx.com/ If you accept the idea of purchasing RenderX XEP, the best thing to do is then: [1] Download and install XXE Standard Edition from http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/download.shtml [2] Download and install *free* XEP *Trial Edition* (3.7+, not 4.0) from http://www.renderx.com/ [3] Download and install the XEP plug-in for XXE from http://www.renderx.com/http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/plugins.shtml ---- PS 1: In all cases, you need to specify *very precisely* the size and alignment of your images in the DocBook document using the proper graphics/imagedata attributes. PS 2: We are not affiliated to RenderX. PS 3: We have not yet tested our plug-in with new XEP 4.0. We'll do that for next version of XXE.
