On 17 Feb 2004 16:04:20 +0100
(David N. Welton) wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've been successfully using DocBook to create HTML for a while now.
> A user requested a printable manual, and I thought it would be a good
> time to check out how to create PDF's, so on my Debian unstable
> machine, I installed the latest FOP available there, 0.20.5-4 and,
> using the docbook-xsl installed, attempted to create a PDF from my
> XML:
>
> xsltproc -o rivet.fo /usr/share/sgml/docbook/stylesheet/xsl/nwalsh/fo/docbook.xsl rivet.xml
>
> So far so good.
>
> fop -fo rivet.fo -pdf rivet.pdf &> oputfile
I'm using FOP to generate PDF docs too, but as this route seems
to use some extensions I use Saxon instead of xsltproc. I'm not sure
the FO output is correct without these extensions. I suggest you try
the Saxon processor (need Java) and enable the fop extensions in your
stylesheet.
Francois.
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