Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: FOP as PDF processor for DocBook

[Ali Saffari <asaffari@pironet.com>]

Aidan Mark Humphreys wrote:
> 
> Has anyone experience of using FOP to render DocBook conformant documents to
> PDF using Norman's stylesheets?
> 

Well actually you can get it running, and with some customization to the
FO-
Stylesheets we was able to get a good result. But FOP and also XEP from
RenderX are not able to process large document. Both engines crash after
a while with some more or less stupid error messages.

Our User Manual got about 250 pages and lots of graphics. After a long
fight with FOP and XEP we gave the hole FO->PDF thing up. I thnik this
technology needs some more time to get ready for the normal users. So we
started to use OpenJade and the DSSSL-Stylesheets to create RTF and 
converted it into PDF. Maybe you should also take a look at PassiveText
under http://users.ox.ac.uk/~rahtz/passivetex/. This is FO-Engine
relying
on xmltex.

Ciao,

Ali :-)

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