Re: PS and PDF

[Alexander Kirillov <kirillov math sunysb edu>]

I can just add that for me, neither FOP nor PassiveTeX worked  on FO
files produced by XSL stylesheets. Much as I hate this, I'll probably
have to go back to jade and DSSSL for printed version of the docs. If
you manage to get PassiveTeX working, let me know...

Sasha



On Mon, 2002-02-04 at 13:29, Kevin Conder wrote:
> > From: Daniel Carrera <dcarrera math toronto edu>
> > 
> > Could someone tell me how to turn DocBook into Postcript of PDF?
> 
> 	You have the choice between two tool-chains: XSL or DSSSL.
> 
> 	In the XSL tool-chain you'd use an XSLT style-sheet to transform a
> DocBook/XML file into a Formatted Object (FO). Then you'd use a tool to
> render this Formatted Object into PostScript or PDF.
> 
> 	I'm assuming that you're using xsltproc to do the transform step.
> To do the render step, there are two Open Source tools: FOP or PassiveTex.
> FOP uses Java and is very immature, IMHO. The last time I checked, it
> didn't support the latest XSL specification and had problems rendering
> tables. I haven't tried PassiveTex yet.
> 
> 	FOP: 
> 	http://xml.apache.org/fop/index.html
> 	
> 	PassiveTex: 
> 	http://www.hcu.ox.ac.uk/TEI/Software/passivetex/
> 
> 	Alternately, there is a program called OpenJade that uses DSSSL 
> style-sheets to render DocBook/XML into a LaTeX file. (OpenJade can
> handle both SGML and XML.) Then you'd use TeX to render this LaTeX file
> into PS or PDF. This is the method I use.
> 
> 	I'm assuming you are using Linux. The tools for the DSSSL 
> tool-chain are available as packages for Debian, RedHat, and Mandrake.
> They're also discussed in the DocBook-Install mini-HOWTO:
> 	http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/DocBook-Install/
> 
> 	BTW: I've found the docbook-apps mailing list to be a valuable
> resource for questions like this. Information about subscribing to the 
> docbook-apps mailing list is available at:
> 	http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/docbook/mailinglist/index.shtml
> 
> 
> -- Kevin Conder, kevin kevindumpscore com
> 
> 
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