On Sat, 2007-03-03 at 13:25 +0000, Dimitris Glezos wrote: > O/H John Babich έγραψε: > > On 3/1/07, Karsten Wade <kwade@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > >> Here is the one I built this morning using htmldoc, as per Dimitris > >> suggestion: > > I uploaded a quick PDF I created with no attempt to beautify it. I took > > your no-chunks HTML and just printed it using cups-PDF. I didn't see > > any graphics in your web page, except for admonitions icons, so you > > won't see any in the doc. > > So we now have two ways to create PDFs. One is `htmldoc` and the other is > `cups-PDF`. There are others that are less hacky that I haven't seen yet on the list -- for example, XSLT to convert DocBook to RML and then using ReportLab (python-reportlab package) to convert to PDF. The results are much cleaner, and still allow very customizable styling. To do this properly, someone would have to actually write the XSLT in question, which is probably not a simple task of a few hours. I am a bit dismayed at the fact that there seem to be gazillions of ways to produce PDFs, but no one has invested time in getting DocBook to use them. Apparently "laziness" trumps "hubris" in this case.¹ I'd bet this project warrants a GSoC pitch, since it would benefit pretty much the entire FOSS community and not just Fedora. = = = ¹ e.g. http://www.netropolis.org/hash/perl/virtue.html -- Paul W. Frields, RHCE http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 Fedora Project: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PaulWFrields irc.freenode.net: stickster @ #fedora-docs, #fedora-devel, #fredlug
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