61 messages in org.oasis-open.lists.docbook-appsRe: DOCBOOK-APPS: docbook xml - paper...| From | Sent On | Attachments |
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| Peter Toft | Jul 20, 2001 2:52 pm | |
| ben | Jul 21, 2001 5:09 am | |
| Sebastian Rahtz | Jul 22, 2001 3:46 pm | |
| Phillip Shelton | Jul 22, 2001 4:55 pm | |
| Sebastian Rahtz | Jul 23, 2001 1:32 am | |
| ben | Jul 23, 2001 10:41 am | |
| ben | Jul 23, 2001 10:45 am | |
| Peter Toft | Jul 23, 2001 11:48 am | |
| Sebastian Rahtz | Jul 23, 2001 2:04 pm | |
| Sebastian Rahtz | Jul 23, 2001 2:05 pm | |
| Sebastian Rahtz | Jul 23, 2001 2:05 pm | |
| Peter Toft | Jul 23, 2001 2:18 pm | |
| ben | Jul 23, 2001 3:45 pm | |
| ben | Jul 23, 2001 3:55 pm | |
| Phillip Shelton | Jul 23, 2001 4:40 pm | |
| Robert Koberg | Jul 23, 2001 6:44 pm | |
| Sebastian Rahtz | Jul 24, 2001 1:48 am | |
| Sebastian Rahtz | Jul 24, 2001 1:49 am | |
| Sebastian Rahtz | Jul 24, 2001 1:50 am | |
| Sebastian Rahtz | Jul 24, 2001 2:33 am | |
| Jeffrey Franks | Jul 24, 2001 5:21 am | |
| Sebastian Rahtz | Jul 24, 2001 5:26 am | |
| Jeffrey Franks | Jul 24, 2001 6:10 am | |
| Sebastian Rahtz | Jul 24, 2001 6:28 am | |
| Matthias Gutbier | Jul 24, 2001 6:47 am | |
| Joe Cooper | Jul 24, 2001 7:03 am | |
| Sebastian Rahtz | Jul 24, 2001 7:27 am | |
| Sebastian Rahtz | Jul 24, 2001 7:30 am | |
| Michel Goossens | Jul 24, 2001 7:44 am | |
| Michel Goossens | Jul 24, 2001 7:44 am | |
| Nico Morgan | Jul 24, 2001 7:46 am | |
| Jean-Baptiste Quenot | Jul 24, 2001 8:04 am | |
| Jean-Baptiste Quenot | Jul 24, 2001 8:04 am | |
| Holger Rauch | Jul 24, 2001 8:31 am | |
| Holger Rauch | Jul 24, 2001 8:34 am | |
| Sebastian Rahtz | Jul 24, 2001 8:44 am | |
| Kevin Dunn | Jul 24, 2001 10:47 am | |
| Jirka Kosek | Jul 24, 2001 11:34 am | |
| Jeffrey Franks | Jul 24, 2001 11:49 am | |
| Jeffrey Franks | Jul 24, 2001 12:19 pm | |
| Nik Clayton | Jul 24, 2001 5:11 pm |  .pgp |
| Nik Clayton | Jul 24, 2001 5:32 pm | .pgp |
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| Sebastian Rahtz | Jul 25, 2001 12:54 am | |
| Sebastian Rahtz | Jul 25, 2001 12:55 am | |
| Holger Rauch | Jul 25, 2001 12:57 am | |
| Holger Rauch | Jul 25, 2001 1:05 am | |
| Matthias Gutbier | Jul 25, 2001 1:06 am | |
| Nico Morgan | Jul 25, 2001 1:11 am | |
| Gershon L Joseph | Jul 25, 2001 5:08 am | |
| Gershon L Joseph | Jul 25, 2001 5:11 am | |
| Karl Eichwalder | Jul 25, 2001 1:17 pm | |
| Sebastian Rahtz | Jul 25, 2001 1:51 pm | |
| Karl Eichwalder | Jul 25, 2001 9:03 pm | |
| Sebastian Rahtz | Jul 26, 2001 1:46 am | |
| M. Wroth | Jul 26, 2001 5:29 am | |
| Jeffrey Franks | Jul 26, 2001 7:37 am | |
| Gershon L Joseph | Jul 26, 2001 9:26 am | |
| Bob McIlvride | Jul 26, 2001 11:03 am | |
| Norman Walsh | Jul 26, 2001 11:45 am | |
| Sebastian Rahtz | Jul 26, 2001 12:06 pm |
| Subject: | Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: docbook xml - paper based outputs? | |
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| From: | Gershon L Joseph (gers...@mainsoft.com) | |
| Date: | Jul 25, 2001 5:08:38 am | |
| List: | org.oasis-open.lists.docbook-apps | |
On Tue, 24 Jul 2001, Sebastian Rahtz wrote:
My belief is that there is no reliable, mature, easy-to-use product to make PDF from Docbook. The nearest might be the Framemaker route, perhaps via DSSSL, I suspect, but even that is a vale full of tears.
face it, getting high-quality typesetting remains hard.
Unless you're using Arbortext Epic Publisher, which gives you top-quality DocBook-based publishing. Epic uses FOSI stylesheets. I've used Epic (and its predecessor Adept) at several companies since I started doing XML/SGML based authoring. On projects that can't afford Epic, I use (Open)Jade for print and PDF output.
Also, Epic is really good with outputing tables. You also have other page layout features not yet supported by Jade or the FO routes. Some of the FOSI features will probably never be supported by Jade or FO (though I think the DSSSL standard does deal with all of them)
Alright, I'll get off the podium now.
<disclaimer>I don't work for Arbortext. I'm just a satisfied customer.</>
Gershon