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RE: Re[2]: Re[2]: Which conversion method should I use?
- From: David Cramer <dcramer at broadjump dot com>
- To: Jose <studio at qadram dot com>, docbook at lists dot oasis-open dot org
- Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2002 12:35:17 -0500
- Subject: RE: Re[2]: DOCBOOK: Re[2]: Which conversion method should I use?
> XEP (evaluation) it hangs parsing the FO file, (FOP works
> well with the same file)
Let me know what error messages you're getting, what versions of the
xsls, and I'll see if I can explain it. I suspect a CR v. PR thing. XEP
can give you a good looking pdf. I haven't looked at Antenna house
lately, but at first they were emphasizing print output and not
supporting pdfish things so much. That was a while back tho. One nice
thing about antenna house if you're tweaking fo xsls is that you can use
it like a browser--make a change to the xsl, hit refresh, and see what
happens. A hackers dream.
> Epic Editor doesn't have an evaluation version and I don't trust in
> refunds ;-)
You have to talk to a sales rep and they send you some keys that expire
after a while. With epic you'll be evaluating an editor and renderer.
> So, I think it would be nice to a DocBook developer have
> something like
> this:
> -DocBook editor, like AbiWord (DocBook support is still in
> beta) with full support for DocBook.
> -With publishing features to save documents as HTML, PDF and
> several other formats.
> -Very easy an intuitive as another text editor
Many long threads on the subject of xml editors, wysiwyg, etc in the
archives of docbook-apps and xml-doc
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/xml-doc/>. It'd be useful to find some
of the more informative posts on the subject and general reviews of
editors and put links to them in the FAQ.
David