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Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] Expected PDF output of minimal document - total newbie alert!


Hi,
With the default stylesheet setting of double.sided=0, then version 2.2 is 
the most correct.  Version 2.3 still has the extra page bug (3rd page), but 
it seems the trunk version has fixed that bug.

If you expect the chapter to start on an odd page and fill in a blank even 
page, then set double.sided parameter to 1.

Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
bobs@sagehill.net


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Brown" <johnbrown105@hotmail.com>
To: <docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org>
Sent: Sunday, March 16, 2008 1:27 PM
Subject: [docbook-apps] Expected PDF output of minimal document - total 
newbie alert!



Hello all,

I found the attached minimal document in a tutorial online. I need
to know what the document is expected to look like when converted
to PDF. The tutorial explained how to produce HTML, not PDF, so there
was no sample PDF (I don't think that there was any sample HTML
for that matter, but anyway...)

I am using xsltproc, fop-trunk, DocBook stylesheets 1.73.2,
DocBook DTD 4.1.2.


I have attached 3 PDF documents:

1) Book2-1.pdf
xsltproc /path/to/1.62.0/stylesheets/fo/docbook.xsl book2-1.fo

These were the stylesheets that I originally downloaded years ago
to build the documentation for an open source program that I use.
The resulting FO caused exceptions in fop-trunk. Someone on the
FOP mailing list manually removed the offending constructs and then
produced the PDF with fop-trunk.

2) Book2-2.pdf
xsltproc /path/to/1.73.2/stylesheets/fo/docbook.xsl book2-2.fo
fop-trunk book2-2.fo book2-2.pdf

3) Book2-3.pdf
xsltproc /path/to/1.73.2/stylesheets/fo/docbook.xsl book2-3.fo
fop-0.94 book2-3.fo book2-3.pdf

I decided to try the stable version of fop, but it wasn't quite right
either, in my opinion.

The XML file is in a gzipped tar file. The URL of the DocBook DTD
in the header is a local path on my machine. Hotmail removes any
text enclosed in angle brackets so I had to disguise it.


My opinion is that book2-1.pdf is probably the right answer, but
I cannot produce it without manual intervention, and, being at the
"Hello, world!" stage, I would not know how to perform that
intervention.

Am I right that the author have intended or expected book2-1.pdf?
Would I get better results from another FO processor?

Thanks in advance.

Regards,
Alias John Brown.

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