Status of docbook to pdf toolchain on Fedora?

[John Ellson]

Marius Andreiana wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-12-21 at 20:11 -0500, John Ellson wrote:
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>> David Malcolm wrote:
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>>> On Wed, 2005-12-21 at 21:43 +0000, Tim Waugh wrote:
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>>>> On Wed, Dec 21, 2005 at 01:29:07PM -0500, John Ellson wrote:
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>>>>> I gather from a 2004 thread in fedora-docs-list that the toolchain was 
>>>>> moving to fop,
>>>>> but I don't see any fop yet in core or extras.
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>> I grabbed the latest FOP trunk from svn, but it still seems to have
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> Sun 
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>> dependencies. 
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> There is an C alternative to FOP:
> http://xmlroff.sourceforge.net/news.html
>
> xmlroff (http://xmlroff.org) is an XSL Formatter written in C that
> produces PDF and PostScript. xmlroff 0.3.0 builds solely on open source
> software since it no longer supports a PDFlib backend. It also plays
> well with GNOME desktops since it uses Pango and the new PangoXSL
> library
>   

Thanks for the reference.  Unfortunately it depends on pangoxsl which hasn't
been maintained since March.   I  can't trivially get it to build on
fedora-core-development.   Perhaps  I'll try a bit harder tomorrow.

John
> As I don't use XSLFO now, but I did in the past with FOP, I didn't test
> this, but looks more attractive and lightweight (libxslt philosophy)
> than FOP.
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