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Subject: DOCBOOK-APPS: Problem converting DB to PDF...
Folks, I wonder if anyone can offer any advice or suggestions on the problems I am having converting from DocBook SGML to PDF. I have developed the user guide for our product in DocBook 4.1 SGML and have had no problems converting it to HTML. The results, and the original DocBook file and images can be found online at: http://www.e-smith.org/docs/manual/ However, because we also would like to have a version available that can be easily printed, I have been trying to generate a PDF or PostScript file. So far, I have been unsuccessful. The two major problems are: 1. Graphics do not appear in the PDF file. They are implemented as <mediaobject> in the DocBook file. 2. More importantly, outside of the missing graphics, the PDF file looks fine for the first 19 pages, until it gets to Chapter 4. In this chapter, I really just have the following construction: <sect1> <title></title> <table> .... </table> <table> .... </table> </sect1> So, two tables with no accompanying text. After it hits this construction, the PDF file loses all margins and page breaks and generally looks horrible. Anyone who wants to see it can view it (440K) at: http://www.e-smith.org/docs/manual/4.1/userguide.pdf I'm doing all my development on Linux (Red Hat 7.0) and using openjade 1.3, the DocBook 4.1 DTD, and Norm's 1.59 DSSSL stylesheets. I've also tried the (Red Hat-supplied) 'db2pdf' file. I've got jadetex 2.7 installed (the number is from the RH rpm filename). I've tried using <informaltable> and also tried putting some paragraphs above, below, and in between the tables. None of it has so far seemed to work. The DocBook code validates perfectly fine (using onsgmls) and, as I mentioned, works perfectly fine generating HTML. Any advice on the DocBook code - or suggestions of other programs to try - will be *greatly* appreciated! Thanks in advance, Dan -- Dan York, Director of Training dyork@e-smith.com Ph: +1-613-751-4401 Mobile: +1-613-263-4312 Fax: +1-613-564-7739 e-smith, inc. 150 Metcalfe St., Suite 1500, Ottawa,ON K2P 1P1 Canada http://www.e-smith.com/ open source, open mind
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