Quickbook

"Andy Little" <andyservocomm.freeserve.co.uk> writes:

> "David Abrahams"
>
>> The question is, what is the route from DocBook
format to PDF format
>> (FOP), and of what quality is the resulting PDF
(poor, if it works at
>> all)?
>
> There are various routes to pdf from Docbook, not just
FOP:
>
> For example a google for DocBook pdf brings up this:
>
> http://www.linuxfocus.org/English/May2000/
article152.shtml#152lfindex3

Yes, they're going through LaTeX, which as I suggested is
the only
scalable, reliable route to reasonable looking PDF.

> Anyway, not being any master of pdf docs, the output
from FOP seems OK to me.
> The Docbook HTML output is OK. Apparently I can produce
other formats (e.g CHM)
> too if I want.
> There is much in DocBook that I personally dont know
yet, and I am sure that
> some time spent with it would produce better results
both for HTML and PDF.

DocBook is a semantic format and learning more about it
won't help you
control the details of PDF (or HTML) generated from it.

-- 
Dave Abrahams
Boost Consulting
www.boost-consulting.com


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