On Fri, 13 Feb 2009, Alexandru Stanoi wrote: > Kore Nordmann wrote: > > > > Find the PDF generation requirements document for the document component > > attached. > > > > This document offers a first discussion base for a requirements > > specification of PDF generation, which is on the roadmap for this > > release cycle. It does not involve reading PDF (which would mean > > converting PDF to Docbook). > > > > The design and implementation of the PDF generation will be discussed > > once we agreed on the requirements. > > From the requirements and the discussion I see it is a complicated > thing to do docbook to PDF conversion. And I think it will be similar > with docbook to ODF. > > My question is why not do the ODF support first, then use existing tools > to convert ODF to PDF? This way you don't have to do the same (hard) > work twice.
One of the reasons is that the external tools incur a great amount of dependencies. regards, Derick -- Components mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ez.no/mailman/listinfo/components
