Re: [docbook-apps] What is status of open-source XSLT to PDF ?

[Jeffrey Franks <jfranks@combuy.com>]

Hi Paul,

Paul A. Hoadley wrote:
> Hi Jeff,
> 
> On Mon, Apr 12, 2004 at 02:00:57PM -0500, Jeffrey Franks wrote:
> 
> 
>>Can someone address this question because I need to setup an
>>open-source tool chain to produce a book in print quality PDF
>>(several hundred rendered pages with text, tables, and images).
> 
> 
> I don't want to go opening too large a can of worms here, but is open
> source a hard requirement?  Is it for philosophical or economic
> reasons?  If purely the latter, you may find it turns out to be a
> false economy.  I can only vouch for XEP in terms of the commercial FO
> formatters (it's the only one I own), but you should recoup the cost
> of a single user license fairly rapidly, if only in time saved working
> around parts of the specification unimplemented in the open source
> tools.
> 
> 

It's an economy issue. More than one contributor for a non-commercial
PDF product. Don't see anyway to do this other than open-source.

Otherwise, point well taken, and I agree with your evaluation in another
context.

Thank you for the input.

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