[TriLUG] Docbook, PDF and Ubuntu (5.10)

[Owen Berry]

Glad to hear that it helped you out. I also preferred the xmlto solution
as it ran faster (actually worked in my case), but the results weren't
so good. xmlto is actually a toolchain that uses a number of other
programs for generating documents. PassiveTex is used for PDF
generation, and, when I looked at it for my project, it seemed to be
incomplete and not being maintained anymore. I was surprised it was
still being used in mainline Linux distros, but I guess there was
nothing else - FOP was new and incomplete, and requires Java.

This is an excellent reference, BTW:

http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/index.html

Owen

On Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 01:45:41PM -0500, Chris Knowles wrote:
> Wow, that works like a champ.
> 
> I just wish it were possible to do without all the trouble of installing
> all that software... I mean, xmlto says it can do PDF output.
> 
> But thanks for the help.
> 
> (and if anyone knows of a way to get xmlto to work, I'm all ears.)
> 
> CJK
> 
> On Mon, 2006-01-09 at 12:38 -0500, Owen Berry wrote:
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> > Owen Berry <oberry at trilug.org>
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> > Re: [TriLUG] Docbook, PDF and
> > Ubuntu (5.10)
> >                              Date: 
> > Mon, 9 Jan 2006 12:38:35 -0500
> > 
> > 
> > I've been working off FC2/3, but have had better luck with FOP
> > (http://xml.apache.org/fop/) for generating PDF's. Here's part of a
> > README I created for a project I worked on where we created
> > documentation using docbook. BTW, I found installing the latest and
> > greatest versions of these tools, rather than using the "built-ins"
> > from
> > your distro, to be key in getting things to work:
> <SNIP LOTS OF GREAT XML/FOP STUFF>