Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Generating PDF from XML

[Ian Castle <ian.castle@coldcomfortfarm.net>]

On Thu, 2002-03-07 at 18:37, Jeff Rancier wrote:
> Hello All,
> 
> I've been trying for sometime now (about 2 years) to generate a PDF file
> from my DocBook XML.  Every attempt has resulted in an unusable PDF file.  I
> produce myfile.fo using the 1.48 stylesheets tranformed by the 6.50 saxon
> parser.  I am using FOP 20.3rc2 to generate the PDF.  Is there a more stable
> tool from which I can generate the PDF file?
> 

DSSSL + openjade + pdfjadetex is arguably the most stable
XSL + passivetex might be better than fop.

http://sf.net/projects/openjade
http://sf.net/projects/jadetex
http://www.hcu.ox.ac.uk/TEI/Software/passivetex/

Both these solutions also require a reasonably comprehensive LaTeX
installation.

DSSSL + openjade + openoffice/msword/whatever to postscript/pdf via RTF
might be a solution if you don't want LaTeX....