Re: [docbook-apps] Preparing a stylesheet for HTML and PDF Output/ Stating the base.dir for HTML and PDF: How can you define the base.dir PDF, using the same relative path as used for HTML

["Bob Stayton" <bobs@sagehill.net>]

Hi Daniel,

Yes, it won't work for PDF because the PDF is not generated by the XSL stylesheet, but by the XSL-FO  processor working on the FO output of the stylesheet.  Placement of the PDF has to be done by the script that runs the process.  Using the XSL processor's -o option in the script can do that, as Peter mentioned.

 

The XSL could be customized to output the FO using the same mechanism as for HTML output, but the XSL could not run the XSL-FO  processor to complete the PDF.

 

Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
bobs@sagehill.net

 

 

----- Original Message -----

From: daniel.keyes@finaris.de

To: docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org

Sent: Monday, February 27, 2012 3:10 AM

Subject: [docbook-apps] Preparing a stylesheet for HTML and PDF Output/ Stating the base.dir for HTML and PDF: How can you define the base.dir PDF, using the same relative path as used for HTML

Hey,



Currently we are finalizing our HTML stylesheet for DocBook. Since our documents are to be released as HTML and PDF and our documentation consists of about 20 different documents with more than 1000 pages total, we need to find a way to state a relative path in our stylesheet as the base.dir that will work out for both. We do not want to store all files, PDF and HTML, in the same folder. What we need is a nice and easy way to define where the output is to be stored.

For HTML we used <xsl:param name="base.dir" select="concat($webhelp.base.dir,'/content/')"/>.
This won´t work for PDF.

We had a similar problem with the role attribute regarding screenshots that had to be scaled differently according if we had a PDF or HTML output , but we managed to define "when to use what".

Is there any solution for our problem?









Greetings,

Daniel Keyes




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