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Re: [docbook-apps] many problems with converting DocBook XML to PDF
- From: "Bob Stayton" <bobs at sagehill dot net>
- To: "Wolfgang Jeltsch" <wolfgang at jeltsch dot net>, "DocBook Applications Mailing List" <docbook-apps at lists dot oasis-open dot org>
- Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2004 18:40:46 -0700
- Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] many problems with converting DocBook XML to PDF
- References: <200410221601.41660.wolfgang@jeltsch.net> <200410252119.13766.wolfgang@jeltsch.net>
Micheal mentioned XEP, and I'll mention Antenna House's XSL Formatter. The
latest version has a beta MathML module. It also is a commercial product.
Both of those products handle most of the XSL-FO 1.0 spec and produce high
quality output suitable for publication.
Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
DocBook Consulting
bobs@sagehill.net
----- Original Message -----
From: "Wolfgang Jeltsch" <wolfgang@jeltsch.net>
To: "DocBook Applications Mailing List" <docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org>
Sent: Monday, October 25, 2004 12:19 PM
Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] many problems with converting DocBook XML to PDF
> Hello,
>
> why did nobody answer my mail?
>
> Meanwhile, I experimented with other ways of converting DocBook XML to PDF
and
> found out that neither of them is really satisfying.
>
> So I ask myself what you people out there do to convert your DocBook XML
files
> to PDF. Or if you can live with line breaks after list bullets, strings
like
> "--4pc" inserted in your output, missing author lines etc. etc.? If you
> accept overly large spacing? If nobody of you uses MathML embedded in
> DocBook XML or if those who do can live with formula output which looks
like
> it would appear in your children's excercise-books? (If you don't know
what
> I mean, see http://jeuclid.sourceforge.net/screenshot01.jpg.)
>
> I would be really be happy if someone could take the time and tell me a
way to
> generate PDF from DocBook XML (preferably with MathML) that actually works
> well.
>
> Wolfgang
>
>