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Subject: Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Best Linux toolchain for SGML->PDF
On Sat, Oct 27, 2001 at 07:43:36PM +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > Rick Bronson writes: > > > My current tool set is: > > > > debian potato, Docbook 4.1, dsssl-1.73, jadetex 3.11-1, Jade version "1.2.1", > > SP version "1.3.4" > > > Anyone have any opinions on this? > > JadeTeX 3.11 is broken for me, but no one responds to the bug reports at > SourceForge. 3.10 works better. The 1.73 style sheets are not usable for > print output that contains variablelists, because of a bug. This is > unfortunate, because that release contains a few other improvements for > print output. I don't know about the Jade vs OpenJade situation, but > OpenJade works for me. > > I'm currently in the process of trying to beat a toolchain approximately > equal to yours into formatting about 1500 pages of documentation into > acceptable PDF output. Problems are tables, various horizontal and > vertical spacing issues, and breaking of extremely long file and url > strings. If you're using the indexing functionality you need a lot of > fixes. If you're using bibliographies and/or refentries mixed with > regular sectioned content you might get broken bookmarks. I encountered a > good load of problems that were rather easy to fix, which indicates to me > that this tool chain isn't widely used for "serious" applications. > > I've also encountered various TeX-related problems, such as pdfTeX not > accepting png images with some weird error message (and I haven't found a > way to make pdf images, so I'm running "imageless"), "font substitutions" > that I have no clue about, and formatting reference pages into TeX messes > up the linking completely. > Try used EPS images. I convert my PNGs into EPSs, convert SGML to TeX, TeX to DVI, DVI to PS, and finally using ghostscript to convert PS to PDF. > So, er, my opinion is that it can be made to work, but if you're writing > more than an article then it's a bit of an effort. > > -- > Peter Eisentraut peter_e@gmx.net http://funkturm.homeip.net/~peter > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > To subscribe or unsubscribe from this elist use the subscription > manager: <http://lists.oasis-open.org/ob/adm.pl> --
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