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Subject: Free-sofware DocBook-to-PDF solutions: dblatex
Lauri Watts <lauri@kde.org> writes: > Due to the lack of response from the maintainers of db2latex, we in fact have > taken up dblatex instead: > http://dblatex.sourceforge.net/ Thanks very much for the heads-up about dblatex. I had never heard of it before I came across your posting. I did some brief testing with it and, with the docs I tested it with, it does seem to work relatively well. I ran into some things that don't seem to be supported (like callouts) and some bugs witn line-wrapping and other things, but overall it seems promising. And IMHO, the default layout of the output from it looks a lot better than the default output from db2latex. > There is quite some activity going on, the maintainer is responsive, and there > are several other people contributing as well as KDE (so, you don't need to > worry about us locking it into a KDE dependency or anything like that.) > We've settled on this as our pdf publishing solution, we just have to build > it into our build system. It's good to hear that dblatex has some momentum behind it, especially great to hear that the KDE team is contributing. We really need a production-quality free-software DocBook-to-PDF solution. To me at least, dblatex looks like the one that has the most chance of actually maturing into production-quality. --Mike -- Michael Smith http://sideshowbarker.net/
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