Re: DOCBOOK: DocBook -> ps anyone?

[eschmid <eschmid+sic at s dot netic dot de>]

On Sat, 4 Mar 2000, Andreas Jellinghaus wrote:

> i´m useing docbook xml and can successfully create pdf documents from
> docbook. acrobat reader can render pdf to postscript.
> i´m useing the apache xml tools and jdk1.2.2 on a debian gnu/linux potato 
> system to do this.

Why not using jadetex and pdfjadetex? With jadetex PostScript can be
generated and with pdfjadetex PDF can be generated directly. PDFs are a
little bit harder to generate, and with pdfjadetex it is not possible to
make a document with more then 780 pages. This is true at least with the
PHP documentation. With print stylesheets it is now over 1000 pages.

> but beware: the xsl stylesheets seem to be alpha quality in pdf rendering
> norm: is it helpfull to write bug reports ? for example page counters
> start several times at 1 within a book.

For the PHP documentation we use Norm's DSSSL.

> i wrote a small docbook/debian howto in german. if there is a need,
> i will translate it to english. write me a mail.

URL? I need the german DocBook HowTo also since I'm the coordinator for
the German translation.

-Egon