On Thu, 2004-09-23 at 20:12, Mark Johnson wrote:
Hi All,
I believe the broken part of the FDP XML -> PDF toolchain is due to
the passivetex component of the TeX backend.
Its been pretty much unused for a long time now Mark.
> XSLFO using xmltex) ever being able to work 100%
Hence I think it's time to consider a different toolchain for pdf
output.
+1
Two possibilities come to mind: FOP [1] and dblatex [2]. IMO fop
would be the better choice as customizing the output requires XSL
expertise, whereas dblatex requires LaTeX expertise to customize the
output.
+1 to fop.
I'd guess that the majority of customisation could be done via
the xslt. If not I have some familiarity with xsl-fo.
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/xslfo/index.html
If we were to adopt FOP, it would be nice to get it working under
gcj (via gij), so that we stick to a 100% free toolchain, though I
think it will also run under kaffe [3]. Some testing would clearly
need to be done... And if such a toolchain proves sufficient for the
needs of the FDP, it probably wouldn't be too difficult to find
someone to package FOP.
I hope this info helps us get to work on building a new XML -> PDF
toolchain:)
Is there any substantial objection to using Sun java as part of
a toolchain?
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Regards DaveP.
XSLT&Docbook FAQ
http://www.dpawson.co.uk/xsl