Re: [tlug] xml to pdf

["Birkir A. Barkarson" <birkirb@example.com>]

Charles Muller wrote:
> Darren Cook wrote:
>
> > I'd welcome advice as to which path I should go down. The main choices
> > seem to be:
> >   1a. Make a style sheet and view in firefox then print to PDF.
> >   1b. Use XSL to convert to HTML (then to PDF using firefox)
>
> Or, 3. Directly output PDF from XML.
>
> I am guessing that your XML is not written using a TEI DTD or schema, 
> but if you could convert it to TEI format, then I guess you could use 
> Sebastian Rahtz's style sheets to generate PDF directly. If this is just 
> a one time thing, it's probably not worth the trouble, but if you expect 
> to do it often, you might want to check into TEI.

Same thing with DocBook

http://www.docbook.org/

It's made for computer manuals and the tools and stylesheets are 
included in most distros.

Regards,

Birkir