PDF generation: xmlroff

Gavin Henry ghenry at suretecsystems.com
Wed Mar 30 11:04:34 UTC 2005


<quote who="Tim Waugh">
> Recently I've been taking a look at how far along the xmlroff project
> is (http://sourceforge.net/projects/xmlroff), and whether it can meet
> the needs of the Fedora Project documentation yet.
>
> The short answer is that it cannot yet do all that we need; most
> notably, the implementation of images is in flux and so they do not
> work at the moment.  The upstream maintainer looks to have a good idea
> of how it should be done, and has posted a step-by-step list on the
> xmlroff mailing list:
>
>   http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=6775778&forum_id=29261
>
> However, aside from images, what other things would we need from an
> XSL-FO processor?  My thinking is that if "all" that's missing for us
> in xmlroff is the images rewrite, it might be quite a nice project to
> focus on.

I think that only a few guides have images in them, so it's too much off a
killer. I would just like PDF creation.

Gavin.

>
> Tim.
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