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Subject:Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: docbook xml - paper based outputs?
From:Jeffrey Franks (jfra@quik.com)
Date:Jul 26, 2001 7:37:36 am
List:org.oasis-open.lists.docbook-apps

Gershon L Joseph wrote:

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.

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