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Re: docbook xml - paper based outputs?
- To: Jeffrey Franks <jfranks at quik dot com>
- Subject: Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: docbook xml - paper based outputs?
- From: Gershon L Joseph <gershon at mainsoft dot com>
- Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 19:23:09 +0200 (Jerusalem Standard Time)
- Cc: docbook-apps at lists dot oasis-open dot org
On Thu, 26 Jul 2001, Jeffrey Franks wrote:
> Gershon L Joseph wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, 24 Jul 2001, Sebastian Rahtz wrote:
> >
> > > My belief is that there is no reliable, mature, easy-to-use product to
> > > make PDF from Docbook. The nearest might be the Framemaker route,
> > > perhaps via DSSSL, I suspect, but even that is a vale full of tears.
> > >
> > > face it, getting high-quality typesetting remains hard.
> >
> > Unless you're using Arbortext Epic Publisher, which gives you top-quality
> > DocBook-based publishing. Epic uses FOSI stylesheets. I've used Epic (and
> > its predecessor Adept) at several companies since I started doing
> > XML/SGML based authoring. On projects that can't afford Epic, I use
> > (Open)Jade for print and PDF output.
> >
...
>
> What do you use for your Linux machine?
Authoring: emacs + psgml
Publish: Jade
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