docbook: xml / xsl to pdf or ps or tex
Subject:
Re: xml / xsl to pdf or ps or tex
From:
"David Horton" ####@####.####
Date:
23 Jul 2003 13:58:14 -0000
Message-Id: <200307231358.h6NDwDBZ069589@mail5.mx.voyager.net>
> Hi
>
> Does anyone have experience of getting good quality results going from
xml to
> printable formats? I've picked up that .fo is a possible route but
results
> are mixed from
> pdf (using pdftex with passivetex) which is quite good
> to others producing ps which is unreadable
> to no method atall to get to tex.
>
> If anyone has experience of any of these, and or other formats, I'd be
> interested to learn how they have done it.
>
> This seems an area where the sgml tools are far stronger than the xml
tools
> that I can find.
>
You can get printable formats using Apache's FOP with the tldp-print.xsl
stylesheet. So far I've gotten PDF output to work on a windoze platform
and I'm assuming FOP on Linux would give similar results.
The list of supported output formats is on Apache's site at:
http://xml.apache.org/fop/output.html
Dave
