DOCBOOK-APPS: PDF Issues

["Rolander, Dan" <Dan.Rolander@marriott.com>]

Hello All,

I'm fairly new to this stuff, but am slowly figuring it out. I have a
working system on Windows 2000 + Cygwin, running OpenJade 1.3, OpenSP 1.4,
DocBook XML 4.1.2, DocBook DSSSL 1.73, and MiKTeX 2.1. Everthing is working
fine, but I've noticed that although the HTML and RTF output looks good, the
PDF output does not look so good. These are the PDF issues I've encountered:

- Long <revremark>'s wrap fine in RTF output but not in PDF. In PDF they
extend off the edge of the page in one single line.

- Spacing between sections and blocks in PDF is excessive, but looks good in
RTF.

- Excessive spacing between admonition text and bounding box exists only in
PDF.

- For the following example, the sidebar note renders fine in HTML and RTF,
but in PDF there is only a small empty box.

    <title>A Title</title>
    <sidebar>
      <note>
	<para>
	  Here is some sidebar text.
	</para>
      </note>
    </sidebar>
    <para>
      Here is some regular text.
    </para>
    [...]

- The following table renders fine in HTML and RTF, but in PDF is missing
the far right border for rows 6-8 and 10-12:

      <table>
	<title>A Table Title</title>
	<tgroup cols="3">
	  <colspec colname="c1"/>
	  <colspec colname="c2"/>
	  <colspec colname="c3"/>
	  <spanspec spanname="hspan" namest="c2" nameend="c3"/>
	  
	  <thead>
	    <row>
	      <entry>Field</entry>
	      <entry spanname="hspan">Value</entry>
	    </row>
	  </thead>
	  <tbody>
	    <row>
	      <entry>Custom Action Name:</entry>
	      <entry spanname="hspan">SomeAction</entry>
	    </row>
	    <row>
	      <entry>DLL File:</entry>
	      <entry spanname="hspan">\\path_to\\DLL</entry>
	    </row>
	    <row>
	      <entry>Function Name:</entry>
	      <entry spanname="hspan">SomeFunction</entry>
	    </row>
	    <row>
	      <entry morerows="3" valign="top">Parameter 1:</entry>
	      <entry>Parameter type:</entry>
	      <entry>string pointer</entry>
	    </row>
	    <row>
	      <entry>Value Source:</entry>
	      <entry>Property</entry>
	    </row>
	    <row>
	      <entry>Property Name:</entry>
	      <entry>AProperty</entry>
	    </row>
	    <row>
	      <entry>Constant Value:</entry>
	      <entry></entry>
	    </row>
	    <row>
	      <entry morerows="3" valign="top">Parameter 2:</entry>
	      <entry>Parameter type:</entry>
	      <entry>string pointer</entry>
	    </row>
	    <row>
	      <entry>Value Source:</entry>
	      <entry>Property</entry>
	    </row>
	    <row>
	      <entry>Property Name:</entry>
	      <entry>AnotherProperty</entry>
	    </row>
	    <row>
	      <entry>Constant Value:</entry>
	      <entry></entry>
	    </row>
	    <row>
	      <entry morerows="3" valign="top">Parameter 3:</entry>
	      <entry>Parameter type:</entry>
	      <entry>string pointer</entry>
	    </row>
	    <row>
	      <entry>Value Source:</entry>
	      <entry>Property</entry>
	    </row>
	    <row>
	      <entry>Property Name:</entry>
	      <entry>AThirdProperty</entry>
	    </row>
	    <row>
	      <entry>Constant Value:</entry>
	      <entry></entry>
	    </row>
	    <row>
	      <entry>Return value type:</entry>
	      <entry spanname="hspan">long</entry>
	    </row>
	    <row>
	      <entry>Returned Property:</entry>
	      <entry spanname="hspan"></entry>
	    </row>
	    <row>
	      <entry>Sequence:</entry>
	      <entry spanname="hspan">ASequence</entry>
	    </row>
	    <row>
	      <entry>Location:</entry>
	      <entry spanname="hspan">ALocation</entry>
	    </row>
	    <row>
	      <entry>Condition:</entry>
	      <entry spanname="hspan"></entry>
	    </row>
	    <row>
	      <entry>In-Script Options:</entry>
	      <entry spanname="hspan">SomeContext</entry>
	    </row>
	    <row>
	      <entry>Processing</entry>
	      <entry spanname="hspan">Synchronous</entry>
	    </row>
	  </tbody>
	</tgroup>
      </table>

- Long <programlisting> lines wrap in RTF but not in PDF. In PDF, they
extend off the side of the page.

Are there any known workarounds for these issues?

Thanks,
Dan