On Sat, 2006-03-11 at 13:18 -0600, Tommy Reynolds wrote: > Uttered "Gavin Henry" <ghenry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, spake thus: > > > <quote who="Rahul Sundaram"> > > > http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2006-March/msg00043.html > > Very nice PDFs. If we can get something like that, that would be cool. > > They must use the Sun JAVA? > > This uses Apache FOP as the PDF rendering engine. Yes, with a few exceptions the FOP output is very nice. I agree they must be using a proprietary JVM to compile FOP, although the article mentions they did try gcj and had some performance concerns. I was going to look into that. > However, it *does* come with a customized XSLT stylesheet that we > could use. The PDF stylesheet in "docs-common/xsl" has not been > altered since its import many, many moons ago. > > I'll look at updating the PDF stylesheet, then. Agreed. It is derived from Norm Walsh's XSL. It is rather customized, but we could use that as a reference or starting point. The XSL as-is is probably better for FOP than what we have right now. :) - Karsten -- Karsten Wade, RHCE * Sr. Tech Writer * http://people.redhat.com/kwade/ gpg fingerprint: 2680 DBFD D968 3141 0115 5F1B D992 0E06 AD0E 0C41 Content Services Fedora Documentation Project http://www.redhat.com/docs http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DocsProject
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