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Re: Inserting eps or pdf documents into a DocBookdocument
- To: Dan York <dyork at e-smith dot com>
- Subject: Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Inserting eps or pdf documents into a DocBookdocument
- From: Richard Sharpe <sharpe at ns dot aus dot com>
- Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 23:25:26 +0900
- Cc: docbook-apps at lists dot oasis-open dot org
- References: <"from sharpe"@ns.aus.com><3.0.6.32.20010410192958.00e482e0@10.0.2.1>
At 10:38 AM 4/10/01 -0400, Dan York wrote:
>Richard,
>
>> What will it take to get DocBook to accept a PDF or EPS file for graphics?
>
>*All* I use for the graphics in my printed manual are EPS files. Something
>like 45 or 50 of them in the file. Works perfectly fine for me.
>Most of them are actually screen shots in Linux which were taken using
>the Gimp (graphics tool) and then saved as EPS (for printing) and JPEG
>(for online version).
>
>To create my PDF manual, I've used a number of different tools, but have
>now settled on 'sgml2x' (http://sgml2x.sourceforge.net/) which is
>really simply a frontend to openjade and JadeTex.... it works perfectly
>fine with EPS files.
Hmmm, I don't understand what the sgml2x does?
I have managed to get DocBook to understand PDF as a graphic format. A
small change to the DTD and to dbparams.dsl was required ... However, the
EPS route looks simpler ... Man the graphics look much better than saving
my drawings as PNG.
>Regards,
>Dan
>
Regards
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Contributing author, SAMS Teach Yourself Samba in 24 Hours
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