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Re: Question about Sets in DocBook
Ian Castle wrote:
> On Tue, 2002-01-15 at 13:28, Bob McIlvride wrote:
>
>>We're still going the SGML route, but if you want to see how
>>we do it, you're welcome to take a look at our in-house manual:
>>
>>http://developers.cogentrts.com/cogent/prepdoc/book1.html
>>
>
> Useful document!
Thank you. I take that as a real compliment, considering the depth of
knowledge and experience I've seen in your other postings to this list.
>
> Section 6.5
>
> http://developers.cogentrts.com/cogent/prepdoc/pd-installingjadetex.html
>
> Is out of date - jadetex is can now be found at
Yes, I'm not surprised. We kind of let that one lag for quite a while now.
Once we finally hit upon a decent working combination of jadetex and dsssl
(with a few of our own customizations thrown into the mix) we decided to
just freeze our development in those areas until a proven XML --> FO --> PDF
toolset evolves that gives equal or better output than DSSSL --> TeX -->
PDF. As we haven't updated jadetex since then, it looks like our links are
getting stale. I'll have to fix that, and I appreciate your input.
...
> Have you investigated PNG with density information for bitmapped
> graphics in PDF? It works far, far better than GIFS - you don't have to
> worry about scaling information. (imageresolution in jadetex.cfg). I
> suspect that this is the root of your mysterious differences!
The same principle applies here. We spent a good deal of time (counting in
days, not hours) getting decent output, that we decided to leave well enough
alone. But that was about two years ago--which is how many centuries in
computer time? It's probably time to revisit the problem, and I appreciate
your suggestions.
Cheerio!
Bob
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Robert McIlvride (robert@cogent.ca)
Cogent Real-Time Systems (www.cogent.ca)