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Re: [docbook] [SLIDES] what about toc?


On Saturday, July 19, 2003, at 10:14 AM, pcasidy@casidy.com wrote:

But so far, I have not been impressed by the quality of html to pdf
tools.

It's rather unusual for me to have slides as PDF, because slides are meant as an oral presentation tool. I first thought you wanted an HTML output.


That's why I am looking for a fo to pdf toolchain.

I know that both N. Walsh's and L. Trieloff's provide stylesheets for FO output, but I didn't test them.


I know there is fop but it requires java.

Java and FOP are IMHO simpler to understand than TeX and PassiveTex. On FreeBSD you may want to build the JDK with the port java/jdk14. FOP is also available in a port IIRC and installs in $(PREFIX)/share/java/classes, so you have to declare the entries there in the CLASSPATH environment variable to use FOP on the command line with something like "java org.apache.fop.apps.Fop".


FOP is now my PDF generator of choice for small documents.

Comments on docbook-apps are welcome.
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Jean-Baptiste Quenot
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