[TriLUG] Docbook, PDF and Ubuntu (5.10)

[tomed at barq.itsco.com]

I believe Apache FOP currently has the best non-commercial implementation of the FO standard.

Tom Ed

At Mon, 09 Jan 2006 13:45:41 -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:
> >                              From: 
> > Owen Berry <oberry at trilug.org>
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> > Triangle Linux Users Group
> > discussion list <trilug at trilug.org>
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> > discussion list <trilug 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>
> 
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