On Sat, 4 Aug 2001, Jirka Kosek wrote:
> > Hojtsy g�bor wrote:
>
> > Jouni, maybe you could contact the people who
> > generated the XML documentations PDF format at
> > W3C. They used some html2ps utility, and the links
> > are fine ;)
>
> Easiest, but not free way how to get PDF file with links from DocBook is
> to use Jade to generate RTF output. This output you can then open in MS
> Word and use Acrobat Distiller to get PDF.
And something like a week ago, someone who had Acrobat Distiller available
at work and his boss' word it's okay to use it for this purpose, offered
his help... but we never heard of him afterwards. Could be that saying
'let's do some testing' scared him away.
I'll have a look at that html2ps thingy, but after doing a search at W3C
site for 'html2ps', the first three headlines I got were
1. [EMAIL PROTECTED] from April to June 2000: Problem with html2ps
2. [EMAIL PROTECTED] from October 1999: Re: HTML2PS BUG
3. [EMAIL PROTECTED] from October 1999: HTML2PS BUG
Although they seem to be a bit old, just by being the first results from a
search, I've got some doubts.
My own both opinion and advice is, let's stick currently to the methods
that have somehow been made to work and produce acceptable results. And,
as a side project, make some progress on the XSLT front, the tools seem to
be maturing. (My opinions and advices could be somewhat affected by the
fact that, due to my current work, I'm a bit involved in a project written
in Java that needs to produce reports about stock exchange events fetched
from a database. If I'm going to get any say about it, we'll forgot all
the old tools, hide the database and make it appear as an XML document
via a few views, and then use some XSLT processor to produce the final
results. Which means that I could once again combine my interests in work
and in PHP doc-group. And that even being the most beneficial and
reasonable choice for all the parties involved.)
Jirka, I remember that you and Jim did some experimenting with XSLT
transformer tools in the beginning of this year. Would you make a summary
of what the results were and why we aren't using those tools yet, or, if
you have already done that, point me to it?
-- Jouni
