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Subject: Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Inserting eps or pdf documents into a DocBookdocument
At 10:38 AM 4/10/01 -0400, Dan York wrote: >Richard, > >> What will it take to get DocBook to accept a PDF or EPS file for graphics? > >*All* I use for the graphics in my printed manual are EPS files. Something >like 45 or 50 of them in the file. Works perfectly fine for me. >Most of them are actually screen shots in Linux which were taken using >the Gimp (graphics tool) and then saved as EPS (for printing) and JPEG >(for online version). > >To create my PDF manual, I've used a number of different tools, but have >now settled on 'sgml2x' (http://sgml2x.sourceforge.net/) which is >really simply a frontend to openjade and JadeTex.... it works perfectly >fine with EPS files. Hmmm, I don't understand what the sgml2x does? I have managed to get DocBook to understand PDF as a graphic format. A small change to the DTD and to dbparams.dsl was required ... However, the EPS route looks simpler ... Man the graphics look much better than saving my drawings as PNG. >Regards, >Dan > Regards ------- Richard Sharpe, sharpe@ns.aus.com Samba (Team member, www.samba.org), Ethereal (Team member, www.ethereal.com) Contributing author, SAMS Teach Yourself Samba in 24 Hours Author, Special Edition, Using Samba
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