[publican-list] RHEL 6 packages for publican 2.8 and 3.0.0

[Jeffrey Fearn]

----- Original Message -----
> On Thu, 08 Nov 2012, Norman Dunbar wrote:
> > I don't suppose there are any other FO->PDF converters around that
> > could replace fop? My problem is that I'm a Database Administrator
> > and not a Perl developer, so looking at Publican's source is not a
> > helpful thing for me to do. I can follow some of it, but then I
> > lose
> > the plot!
> 
> There's dblatex which can do Docbook -> LaTeX -> PDF. I believe that
> dblatex can fullfill al the requirements of Publican even support for
> non-Latin languages provided that we use the right options and LaTeX
> implementation (i.e. xetex instead of the default pdftex).
> 
> At some point I might find the time required to add a dblatex backend
> in Publican... the upstream author of dblatex is also very supportive
> in case we have specific requirements.

We did look at TeX, PostScript, etc _ages_ ago and there was always something that made them more difficult that it was worth.

A lot of that stuff was basic usability that may be resolved today, like the learning curve to do brand customisations, or portability (I'm looking at you Windows (TM)).

Happy to take patches that allow people to switch to their tool chain of choice though.

Cheers, Jeff.

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Jeff Fearn <jfearn at redhat.com>
Senior Software Engineer
Infrastructure Engineering & Development (AEU)
Red Hat Asia Pacific Pty Ltd
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