[TriLUG] Docbook, PDF and Ubuntu (5.10)

[tomed at barq.itsco.com]

Let's see - Instead of using xslt and fo to render the pdf, jade uses a different type of stylesheet. I don't think it's xml based, more like a dialect of lisp.

The jade stylesheets also have support for generating rtf.

Tom Ed

At Tue, 10 Jan 2006 10:07:51 -0500,
Timothy A. Chagnon wrote:
> 
> I wrote some docbook stuff a couple years back and we always used Jade
> to create PDFs.  Maybe this is an outdated way of doing it, but I just
> tried it on Breezy and it seems to work.  I just installed the
> docbook-utils package to get the docbook2... scripts.  Then a little:
> 
> db2pdf foo.xml
> acroread foo.pdf
> 
> Still works on an old XML I had.  Just had to update the location of
> the DTD to /usr/share/xml/docbook/schema/dtd
> 
> I haven't kept up on the Docbook stuff, so I'm not sure where this
> fits in with FOP or xmlto.  Perhaps somebody could enlighten me.
> 
> Tim
> 
> On 1/9/06, Owen Berry <oberry at trilug.org> wrote:
> > 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.
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