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Re: How to process a DocBook file on Debian? (fwd)
On Mon, Dec 23, 2002 at 01:27:40AM +0100, Michael Schuerig wrote:
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> AFAIK, there's no direct and easy way to get a printable representation
> of a docbook file. You can use xsl-stylesheets to generate FO output
> and process that in turn with fop (package lib-fop-java).
> Alternatively, there's the package docbook-utils that contains
> converters from docbook to pdf, ps, rtf and various other formats.
> docbook-utils uses dsssl-stylesheets, though, so I can't say if this is
> of help to you. I have tried neither and can't say if/how they work.
I use Apache's FOP (lib-fop-java) and it produces very nice PDFs. You
can even configure it to produce the PDF bookmarks.
- Ryan