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Re: [docbook] PDF Transformation and Tables
- From: "Bob Stayton" <bobs at sagehill dot net>
- To: "Ruth Ivimey-Cook" <Ruth dot Ivimey-Cook at ivimey dot org>
- Cc: "Ruth Ivimey-Cook" <Ruth dot Ivimey-Cook at ivimey dot org>, <docbook at lists dot oasis-open dot org>
- Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2005 09:12:19 -0800
- Subject: Re: [docbook] PDF Transformation and Tables
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You could try the dbfo processing instruction described here:
http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/Tables.html#TableWidth
But I'm not sure that works in pdfxmltex. I think you might have to set
column widths that add up to the total width you desire.
Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
DocBook Consulting
bobs@sagehill.net
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ruth Ivimey-Cook" <Ruth.Ivimey-Cook@ivimey.org>
To: "Bob Stayton" <bobs@sagehill.net>
Cc: "Ruth Ivimey-Cook" <Ruth.Ivimey-Cook@ivimey.org>;
<docbook@lists.oasis-open.org>
Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2005 2:32 AM
Subject: Re: [docbook] PDF Transformation and Tables
> On Mon, 2005-02-07 at 14:30 -0800, Bob Stayton wrote:
> > I believe xmlto uses pdfxmltex, not FOP, to generate PDF. So I don't
think
> > it is the same problem. pdfxmltex pretty much requires that you set
column
> > widths on your tables.
>
> You're right. I went and checked, and in /usr/share/xmlto/format/fo/pdf
> I found the invocation of pdfxmltex.
>
> I don't know how to set the width on the table, though. Is some sort of
> XInclude statement required?
>
> Ruth
>
> --
> Ruth Ivimey-Cook <ruth@ivimey.org>
>
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