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Subject:Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: About FO (was db2latex)
From:Jeffrey Franks (jfra@quik.com)
Date:Jul 24, 2001 6:10:54 am
List:org.oasis-open.lists.docbook-apps

Sebastian Rahtz wrote:

Jeffrey Franks writes:

summary: immature marketplace.

I'm a newbie trying to get a lay of the landscape too.

Is Sgml/Dsssl a better approach to produce PDF with less pain?

not really, because there you have have just one processor to choose from, with an inadequate implementation

XML/XSL and SGML/DSSSL landscape looks pretty bleak for FO and PDF from a newbie's viewpoint. I thought this stuff was ready to use without pain.

What would you recommend as a course of action on the project I'm working on? I'm about 1/3 into a 1000 page book. I'm responsible for *BOTH* content and style, and so processing issues are of interest to me. I concentrate on one or the other, but in the end, the buck stops at my doorstep.

I've rendered in HTML without customization just to close the loop on my markup (and give me confidence process is doing something right). Do I need to do the same with PDF (just to make sure that the process works)?

Do you ever find you need to "tweak" the original XML markup to get an acceptable PDF result? Hopefully, answer is "no" since "yes" violates separation between content and style even if style is stretched to mean processing environment.