Re: DocBook XML to pdf/ps

[Sander Vesik <Sander Vesik Sun COM>]

On 30 Mar 2002, Murray Cumming wrote:

> On Sat, 2002-03-30 at 17:22, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> > On Sat, Mar 30, 2002 at 04:54:56PM +0100, Murray Cumming wrote:
> > > We currently use this command to build html from our DocBook XML
> > > documents:
> > > 
> > > xsltproc -o html/
> > > http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current/html/chunk.xsl
> > > gtkmm-tut.xml
> > > 
> > > How could we produce pdf and/or ps too?
> > 
> >   Argh ... I sugest you look at the DocBook-Apps list FAQ:
> >     http://www.dpawson.co.uk/docbook/
> > 
> > http://www.dpawson.co.uk/docbook/tools.html
> 
> Sorry for asking an FAQ. I had done some searches before asking.
> 
> Unfortunately I can't find much help at those URLs. They suggest that
> DocbookXML->pdf is possible via a few routes, but it doesn't tell me
> 1. What method is preferred for GNOME2.

Is there one?

> and
> 2. How to actually do it, for dummies.
> 

May DV forgive me, but a script containing

java org.apatche.fop.apps.XalanCommandLine $1 $HOME/docbookxsl/fo/docbook.xsl $2

will do it, provided fop and its pre-requistites (w3c.jar and bfs.jar) are
present in CLASSPATH and that you do have the stylesheets in
$HOME/docbookxsl. Oh, and you obviously need java.

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> 

	Sander

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