Re: [docbook] "xmlto pdf" command fails in TeX/LaTeX step on debiansystem.

[Jirka Kosek <jirka@kosek.cz>]

cga2000 wrote:

> I started playing with DocBook over the weekend and while the "xmlto
> html" and "xmlto html-nochunks" commands worked absolutely fine from the
> word go, the generation of pdf (or ps) documents does not function
> correctly.
> 
> It looks like I might be missing a LaTeX package or that LaTeX is not
> correctly configured on my system.

It seems that your xmlto script invokes PassiveTeX which is incomplete
and unmaintained proof of concept XSL-FO engine built on top of TeX. You
should use different FO processor, if you need free one than you can try
FOP 0.93, although I don't have idea how to configure xmlto to use FOP
instead of PassiveTeX.

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