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Subject: DocBook tool chain recommendations?
I'm still trying to decide on an Open Source tool chain to use for formatting DocBook into PDF. I gather that the procedure is to use an XSLT processor to process DocBook into XSL-FO, then use an XSL-FO processor to generate the PDF. Bob Stayton's "DocBook XSL: The Complete Guide" (Sagehill, 2003) lists several possibilities for XSLT processors, including Saxon, Xalan, and xsltproc. I gather that xsltproc is a good choice, as it is fast, free, and conformant to the specification. This leaves me with the problem of formatting the XSL-FO into PDF. Dave Pawson's "XSL-FO" book (O'Reilly, 2002) lists a number of formatters. http://webdesign.about.com/cs/xslformatters also lists several possibilities. PassiveTex is one possibility, but setting up an maintaining a TeX suite just for this purpose may be onerous (though it would have the advantage of providing access to TeX :-). FOP is another possibility (and I've downloaded a copy to try out), but it appears to be rather dated: the current version (0.20.5) was created in 2003. I'd rather not go down the wrong path, so I'm asking for comments, cautions, and suggestions. Help? -r P.S. I'd look in the wiki (http://wiki.docbook.org) for all this, but it appears to be out of service: Cannot Load Address No such host wiki.docbook.org (I've sent a note to Norman Walsh, who owns the domain.) -- email: rdm@cfcl.com; phone: +1 650-873-7841 http://www.cfcl.com - Canta Forda Computer Laboratory http://www.cfcl.com/Meta - The FreeBSD Browser, Meta Project, etc.
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