Re: [docbook-apps] DocBook with InDesign for PDF

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Chris Chiasson <>
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2007-03-13T03:48:23+00:00
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Re: [docbook-apps] DocBook with InDesign for PDF
DocBook isn't really geared toward describing business cards, AFAIK.

On 3/12/07, Hendy Irawan <> wrote:
> Dear DocBook experts,
>
> Has anyone had experience with DocBook and Adobe InDesign CS2?
>
> It seems relatively easy to make "dynamic" (XML-based) business cards
> using InDesign but since DocBook is a very complex language I'm not
> exactly sure if this is doable.
>
> If "rendering" DocBook documents in InDesign seems unapproachable,
> maybe we could use InDesign merely as a design tool for FO stylesheet?
>
> I found this from RenderX:
> http://www.renderx.com/tools/inx2fo.html
>
> It can convert InDesign document to FO... which may be useful to aid
> designing the FO stylesheet? But again, due to DocBook's XSL-FO
> stylesheet complexity.... this gives me the creeps also.
>
> Please advise or share your experiences... Thank you.
>
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