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