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Subject: RE: [docbook-apps] anyone have a windows-based publishing infrastructure?
I have a Windows-based system. I do have Cygwin, but it's a needless complication to the publishing system. All of my tools are native Windows applications. I use Xmetal for editing, although I've been playing with Morphon and it's pretty much the equivalent of Xmetal (for free). I use the modular XSL style sheets to transform Docbook into HTML Help and FO. My XSL processor is xsltproc, which is handy 'cause I use xinclude to modularize the documents. I have a copy of XEP to transform the FO into PDF. For graphics, I use the Windows port of GIMP and the vector drawing application in Open Office. I use TortoiseCVS for XML file source control. It's not a content management system, but it serves my purposes. The big drawback in the Windows world is that you'll get lots of folks in the company asking for output as Word documents instead of PDF or help. I haven't tried it yet, but I'm told that the XMLMind FO processor does a pretty good job of converting FO to RTF. Most of the other RTF converters (such as JFOR) don't really to a good enough job. Bill Lawrence Senior Technical Writer Matrix Solutions > -----Original Message----- > From: Robert P. J. Day [mailto:rpjday@mindspring.com] > Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2003 5:47 AM > To: docbook apps list > Subject: [docbook-apps] anyone have a windows-based publishing > infrastructure? > > > while i'm adamantly a linux-based person, a colleague is interested > in setting up a windows-based publishing infrsstructure, preferably > with freely-available/open source tools. > > does anyone on this list have this up and running? that is, a > windows setup with all of the prerequisite XML/docbook/XSLT/FO/HTML/PDF > tools? if so, drop me a note, i'd like to know more. > > rday > > > To unsubscribe from this list, send a post to docbook-apps- > unsubscribe@lists.oasis-open.org.
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