Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: How to process a DocBook file on Debian? (fwd)

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On Mon, Dec 23, 2002 at 01:27:40AM +0100, Michael Schuerig wrote:
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> AFAIK, there's no direct and easy way to get a printable representation 
> of a docbook file. You can use xsl-stylesheets to generate FO output 
> and process that in turn with fop (package lib-fop-java). 
> Alternatively, there's the package docbook-utils that contains 
> converters from docbook to pdf, ps, rtf and various other formats. 
> docbook-utils uses dsssl-stylesheets, though, so I can't say if this is 
> of help to you. I have tried neither and can't say if/how they work.

I use Apache's FOP (lib-fop-java) and it produces very nice PDFs.  You
can even configure it to produce the PDF bookmarks.

- Ryan