Re: [docbook-apps] is docbook the right tool for the job?

On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 08:01:18AM -0700,
 Bob Stayton <> wrote 
 a message of 37 lines which said:

> The other aspect is whether the tools will produce the
> quality of output your need.  Keep in mind that 
> there are other FO processors that do a better job
> than the free processors PassiveTeX and FOP.

You can produce PDF from DocBook without FO. I still use jade +
pdfjadetex, which does not require non-free tools (Java JRE) and works
better than PassiveTeX.