docbook: DB to PDF?
Subject:
Re: DB to PDF?
From:
"Greg Ferguson" ####@####.####
Date:
11 Jan 2001 21:36:45 -0000
Message-Id: <10101111632.ZM4781@hoop.timonium.sgi.com>
On Jan 11, 4:23pm, Dan York wrote:
> Subject: DB to PDF?
>
> Question for you all... anyone have any great solutions for doing
DocBook
> into PDF? I've got a DB4.1 SGML file that comes out quite nicely into
> HTML. But I would also like to take it to PDF. I went to freshmeat,
> searched on "DocBook" and then tried the different tools... I can't
> get "sgml2x" to install correctly... and I *did* get sgmltools-lite
> to install, but it couldn't render the PDF correctly (jadetex seemed
> to have all sorts of TeX errors).
>
> Any suggestions for tools to use?
Well, what do you think about the quality of some of the DocBook
docs on the LDP we've published to PDF? I know some people may not
care for what we've produced (quality-wise), but I think it's "decent".
I, too, abandoned the jadeTeX route for a variety of reasons...mostly
my lack of control over where things get installed!
Documents to examine, include the LDP Author Guide :
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/linux-doc-project/LDP-Author-Guide/
or the "DocBook Install mini-HOWTO"
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/mini/other-formats/pdf/DocBook-Install.pdf
(make sure you examine page 1, the title page). Both were created from
DocBook SGML. If you like the output, then the steps are:
- {open}jade produces a single-file (nochunks) HTML using available
DSSSL styles (not the "print" style(s) but those for HTML).
- HTML is filtered via a perl script/library I put together to
produce a title file and body file AND clean-up a bunch of
"problems" that htmldoc has when producing PDF/Postscript.
- Output is sent thru htmldoc to produce PDF and Postscript.
I can send you more info and the perl script/library.
lmk,
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Greg Ferguson - s/w engr / mtlhd | gferg at sgi.com
SGI Tech Pubs - http://techpubs.sgi.com/ |
Linux Doc Project - http://www.linuxdoc.org/ | gferg at metalab.unc.edu
