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Re: docbook xml - paper based outputs?
Jeffrey Franks writes:
> I realize everyone is doing their best. However, this would be amusing
> if there were not so much at stake.
caveat emptor. who ever said it was all easy?
> Seems applicable to the deplorable situation we face in order to
> get high quality PDF from DocBook Xml.
depends what you mean by "high-quality".some people are more than
happy with FOP, others pick holes even in TeX output.
> Flames may be in order, but
> remember I'm a newbie (one month w/ DocBook Xml), I'm in the
> trenches, and I'm trying to get work done. My focus is end product,
> not process development.
My belief is that there is no reliable, mature, easy-to-use product to
make PDF from Docbook. The nearest might be the Framemaker route,
perhaps via DSSSL, I suspect, but even that is a vale full of tears.
face it, getting high-quality typesetting remains hard.
sebastian
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