Generating PDF (was: RE: Q) Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Converting from DocBook/SGML to DocBook/XML)

[Gregory Leblanc <GLeblanc@cu-portland.edu>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dan York [mailto:dyork@e-smith.com]
> > Is there an advantage in using DSSSL with DocBook Xml?
> 
> > Does DSSSL work better than Xsl for rendering PDF?
> 
> Right now, my Java environment is broken on my box, so DSSSL 
> is my only
> way of going to PDF (I have just recently downloaded Sebastian's 
> PassiveTeX and have not yet installed it.), but I have had a number of
> people tell me that FOP and PassiveTeX both produce decent PDF.

I've been using 'htmldoc' to generate PDF and PS from DocBook source, by way
of a single large HTML file.  The PDF it generates looks good, and has
clickable links, and that sort of thing.  At the moment, we use a perl
script to clean up the output from Jade, because Jade is impressively slow
to process docs.
	Greg