xml to pdf - potential replacement technology?

[Dougie Richardson]

Hi Matt,

I'll check this out if its OK with everyone - especially apt given the work 
I've just done for the Desktop Training.

I've got to admit that the current conversion tools are terrible, dblatex 
does a good job but customization is severely limited. Apache FOP is quite 
flexible in this respect but is very tempremental and has difficulty with 
links and indexs.

Cheers,

Dougie
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Matthew East" <matt at mdke.org>
To: "Ubuntu Doc Team" <ubuntu-doc at lists.ubuntu.com>
Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2007 2:23 PM
Subject: xml to pdf - potential replacement technology?


> Hi,
>
> Just read this: http://times.usefulinc.com/2007/10/10-prince
>
> Seems to be free as in beer, although not as in speech. Does anyone
> want to check this out?
>
> Could we consider a non-libre technology for producing pdfs, if it
> happened to be easier than our current (totally screwy) solutions?
>
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