J. Friedrich wrote: > > here are some questions left concerning XMLMind.
Sorry in advance because the answers below are too succinct to be really useful. The reason for that is written at the very end of this email. > > 1. Graphics don't appear in the size of the page/within the text block, when > I want to convert .pdf. Even when I set the attribute 'align' with the value > 'justify'. I am working with .png mostly screen shots and use the style sheet > 'figure'. > You need to specify special attributes for DocBook element imagedata (or graphic -- now obsolete) such as width, depth, contentwidth, contentdepth, etc. DocBook 4: http://www.docbook.org/tdg/en/html/imagedata.html DocBook 5: http://www.docbook.org/tdg5/en/html/imagedata.html XXE_install_dir/demo/docbook-image.xml may be used as a short tutorial for these attributes. > 2. Converting .pdf the font is times new roman or something alike. We are > using Verdana. I already changed the standard CSS Stylesheet in the options, > but the .pdf fonts are still serifed. How can I change this? > The CSS stylesheets specify what you see on screen and not what you'll get in PDF. The DocBook XSL stylesheets which generate XSL-FO (an intermediate page description format) specify what you'll get in PDF. These DocBook XSL stylesheets are customized either by specifying XSLT stylesheet parameters or by redefining XSLT attribute sets. For example, you may want to specify XSLT stylesheet parameter: body.font.family to: Verdana See http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current/doc/fo/body.font.family.html However but doing just this, it will not work because FOP, the XSL-FO processor which generates the PDF will not automatically find the TTF font file corresponding to Verdana. --> In order to tell FOP where to find the Verdana font, please use menu item Options|Preferences, Add-on|FOP section and add 4 Verdana fonts: one for regular, one for bold, one for italic or oblique, one for bold/italic or bold/oblique. --> In order to specify an XSLT stylesheet parameter from within XMLmind XML Editor, please use menu item Options|Customize Configuration|Change Document Conversion Parameters and refer to this documentation: http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/_distrib/doc/help/com.xmlmind.xmleditapp.kit.part.ConversionParametersEditor.html More generally, please refer to this FAQ: --- How do I customize the HTML, PDF, RTF, etc, generated using the "Convert Document" menu? http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/faq.html#custom_deliverables --- > 3. Can I change the style sheet itself, if yes, where is it filed. The DocBook XSLT stylesheets are found here: DocBook 4: XXE_install_dir/addon/config/docbook/xsl/fo/*.xsl DocBook 5: XXE_install_dir/addon/config/docbook5/xsl/fo/*.xsl However, the cleanest way to customize the DocBook XSLT stylesheets is described here: http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/_distrib/doc/configure/customize_xslt.html > > 4. The depth of the chapter structure at the moment is > Part > Chapter > Section > What if I need another depth after 'section'? the 'simplesect' is not useful > here. Sections can be nested. That is, you may insert a section inside a section. Alternatively, you could have used sect1, sect2, sect3, etc, which is somewhat clearer though less flexible than sections. DocBook 4: http://www.docbook.org/tdg/en/html/section.html DocBook 5: http://www.docbook.org/tdg5/en/html/section.html > > Could you please help me in these things? > I'm sorry but the answer is: not really! All your questions seem to be about DocBook itself or about the DocBook XSLT stylesheets. I mean, your questions are not directly related to our product. Please remember that XMLmind XML Editor is just an XML *authoring* *tool* (worth a few hundred dollars), and not a complete DocBook publishing solution or a consultancy service about DocBook (worth a few thousand dollars). -- XMLmind XML Editor Support List [email protected] http://www.xmlmind.com/mailman/listinfo/xmleditor-support
