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Re: [docbook] Status of PDF output with DocBook + XSL + FO?


On Fri, 10 Oct 2003, Stefan Seefeld wrote:

> Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 08, 2003 at 04:00:33PM +0200,
> >  Peter van Heusden <pvh@wfeet.za.net> wrote 
> >  a message of 21 lines which said:
> > 
> > 
> >>output using the XSL stylesheets (and xsltproc). I tried creating
> >>PDF from FOs using FOP,
> > 
> > 
> > Since FOP requires non-free software, I use jade + JadeTeX when I need
> > PDF and it works for me.
> 
> does it ? Hmm, RH did a great deal of work to make some of the java 
> stuff from apache compile with gcj (http://sources.redhat.com/rhug/).
> So if fop still requires any non-free java runtime, that state shouldn't
> last long :-)
> 
> But I didn't try recently...

clearly not a docbook-related question, but i've been using xsltproc+FOP
to generate my PDF output for quite some time now, with the addition of
sun's jdk 1.4.2.  FOP is still incomplete, but getting better all the 
time.

rday


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