RE: [docbook-apps] Making PDFs in Windows

We’re transforming docbook documents to FO using the .NET library classes “XmlReader” and “XslCompiledTransform” in the namespace “System.Xml” and “System.Xml.Xsl”. The resulting formatting objects are then processed to PDF by the commercial IBEX product. We used to call FOP before but we had to drop that because of the java dependency. The open source processors that we evualuated (besides FOP) were all not fit enough for production releases – therefore the dependency on the commercial product.

Cheers,

Dominik

From: Paul Tremblay [mailto:paulhtremblay@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2012 3:11 AM
To: docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] Making PDFs in Windows

I have used both cygwin and mingw. I prefer mingw because cygwin has so many bugs, and in fact the latest version does not work with the FOP bash script. However, as others pointed out, you can generate PDF from the windows shell. I prefer not to use the Windows shell because it has so many limitation compared to a unix-like shell.

Paul

On 4/18/12 9:59 AM, DeanNelson@aol.com wrote:

Its not necessary to use Cygwin or MinGW.

I use a batch file that calls XSLTPROC and FOP to generate PDFs under Windows.

Check our Bob Stayton's book for more info.

Regards,

Dean Nelson

In a message dated 4/18/2012 6:51:52 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, yoursurrogategod@gmail.com writes:

Hi guys, have you ever used Docbook to generate PDFs in Windows? Did you use Cygwin? If not, would you recommend anything else?

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