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Re: [docbook-apps] What is status of open-source XSLT to PDF ?


Hi Paul,

Paul A. Hoadley wrote:
Hi Jeff,

On Mon, Apr 12, 2004 at 02:00:57PM -0500, Jeffrey Franks wrote:


Can someone address this question because I need to setup an
open-source tool chain to produce a book in print quality PDF
(several hundred rendered pages with text, tables, and images).


I don't want to go opening too large a can of worms here, but is open
source a hard requirement?  Is it for philosophical or economic
reasons?  If purely the latter, you may find it turns out to be a
false economy.  I can only vouch for XEP in terms of the commercial FO
formatters (it's the only one I own), but you should recoup the cost
of a single user license fairly rapidly, if only in time saved working
around parts of the specification unimplemented in the open source
tools.



It's an economy issue. More than one contributor for a non-commercial PDF product. Don't see anyway to do this other than open-source.

Otherwise, point well taken, and I agree with your evaluation in another
context.

Thank you for the input.

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Jeffrey L. Franks  (web)  http://www.motiftools.org
                   (e-mail) jfranks@combuy.com


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