discuss: My PDF output of my Howto document is suboptimal
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Re: [discuss] My PDF output of my Howto document is suboptimal
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Date:
1 Mar 2006 20:21:24 -0000
Message-Id: <34819.151.196.186.246.1141244483.squirrel@webmail.fergusontechgroup.com>
> Hi,
>
> I'm testing my nearly done version of the next issue of the BogoMips
> mini-Howto (at last a new one), now in full blown DocBook XML. Runs with
> FOP to create a PDF file does give a readable file, but the layout is
> terrible: all one long text without useful pagination (e.g., per section
> start), huge letters for section and subsection titles, mixture of serif
> and non-serif fonts. And I get a lot of messages about
> background-position and other warnings.
>
> I'm running the command:
>>> fop -xsl /usr/share/sgml/......./tldp-print.xsl -xml bogomips.xml
> -pdf b.pdf
>
> Find the two important files (under embargo, not for publication yet)
> here:
>
> http://www.clifton.nl/other/bogomips.xml
>
> http://www.clifton.nl/other/b.pdf
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
I realize this does not fix your problem, but the publishing
method I/we use for PDF generation for TLDP...
1. takes the single-file HTML variant created from the XML source
(jade -t sgml -i html -V nochunks ... <howto>.xml > <howto>.html),
2. does some filtering on it
(ldp-print package: http://tldp.org/authors/#pdf),
3. which then sends the file to htmldoc
(HTMLDOC package: http://www.htmldoc.org/)
--
Greg
