On Thu, 2004-09-23 at 20:12, Mark Johnson wrote: > Hi All, > > I believe the broken part of the FDP XML -> PDF toolchain is due to > the passivetex component of the TeX backend. Its been pretty much unused for a long time now Mark. > > XSLFO using xmltex) ever being able to work 100% > > Hence I think it's time to consider a different toolchain for pdf > output. +1 > > Two possibilities come to mind: FOP [1] and dblatex [2]. IMO fop > would be the better choice as customizing the output requires XSL > expertise, whereas dblatex requires LaTeX expertise to customize the > output. +1 to fop. I'd guess that the majority of customisation could be done via the xslt. If not I have some familiarity with xsl-fo. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/xslfo/index.html > > If we were to adopt FOP, it would be nice to get it working under > gcj (via gij), so that we stick to a 100% free toolchain, though I > think it will also run under kaffe [3]. Some testing would clearly > need to be done... And if such a toolchain proves sufficient for the > needs of the FDP, it probably wouldn't be too difficult to find > someone to package FOP. > > I hope this info helps us get to work on building a new XML -> PDF > toolchain:) Is there any substantial objection to using Sun java as part of a toolchain? -- Regards DaveP. XSLT&Docbook FAQ http://www.dpawson.co.uk/xsl
