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Re: Where, what and how - The future of DocBook
- To: Gregory Leblanc <gleblanc at cu-portland dot edu>
- Subject: Re: Where, what and how - The future of DocBook
- From: Craig Boone <craig at estinc dot com>
- Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2000 12:13:16 -0700
- CC: "Alan W. Irwin" <irwin at beluga dot phys dot uvic dot ca>, docbook-tools-discuss at sources dot redhat dot com
- References: <200012061723.KAA06519@gw.estinc.com>
Gregory Leblanc wrote:
> I've gotten around this the easy way, I don't use pdfjadetex. Instead,
> I use a tool called htmldoc, which convers from HTML to PS/PDF, and does
> a VERY nice job at it. The only thing that's missing is that it doesn't
> convert the external (href) hyperlinks to something useful along the
> way. I can do this with jade, but jade is slow.
>
> Greg
Is htmldoc something that you created, or is it something that's
available for download? I can't seem to get any of the pdf/ps
conversions to occur properly with the DocBook tools that I have. I'm
using the db2pdf and db2ps scripts and all they seem to do is explode
and spew latex errors everywhere. I can write picture-perfect sgml and
it makes lovely html conversions, but it doesn't do me much good if I
can't get it printed.
I've been monitoring this list and watching all of the "Future of
DocBook" threads and I gotta say it's a great project and I'd love to be
able to set it as a standard to create all of my documentation.
However, I just can't seem to get a dependable set of tools and solidly
implement them. Suggestions?
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