From: Hal Fulton <hal9000@...>
Date: 2005-11-13T17:28:03+09:00
Subject: Re: DocBook to PDF

Nicholas Van Weerdenburg wrote:
> 
> It's a bit tedious to install, but the toolchain is mostly automatic.
> 
> docbook->doc book xsl-> xsl-fo-> pdf
> 
> All you reall do is execute the toolchain against the docbook. So, you
> don't really need to know xslt, xsl-fo, or pdf.

Well, I have to know something at some point if I am going to change
the page size, which is the whole point of the exercise.

At what point would I make that change? (I won't ask "how" until I
actually have the tools installed.)

> Compared to Rexml and PDF::Writer, this is a whole lot simpler. Spend
> a couple of hours configuring tools, create a batch file or ant
> script, and you are rolling.

OK, that sounds good.

I wonder if there is a need for any of these tools in Ruby? Would
we gain anything or not? I'm asking partly just to stay more
on-topic. ;)


Hal