Having googled around I found this about Docbook to PDF conversion:
http://www.linuxfocus.org/English/May2000/article152.shtml
no sign of fop.
I hope it helps and that I am not mistaken when I claim the format is
docbook.
Cheers
Zoltan
----- Original Message -----
From: "Karel Zak" <zakkr@zf.jcu.cz>
To: "Peter Eisentraut" <peter_e@gmx.net>
Cc: "BARTKO, Zoltan" <bartko.zoltan@pobox.sk>;
<pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Sent: Friday, January 30, 2004 10:42 AM
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] msg translation into sk_SK, Docs: SGML -> XML
> On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 07:02:12PM +0100, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> > > Peter E. works on XML docbook version of docs. I don't know if he
> > > wants to move directly to XML or uses on the fly conversion to XML
> > > by osx (sgml2xml). This conversion you try use by "make testxml"
> > > stuff in the doc/src/sgml/Makefile. I tested it and it works --
> > > but for example conversion from XML to PDF by "fop" failed, but
> > > it's might be fop problem.
> >
> > The general consensus is that FOP is simply not there yet.
>
> Do you how idea how convert XML to "fo" or directly to "pdf"?
>
> > > Peter, what's your planns?
> >
> > Well, when people feel good about it, we can switch the stored format to
> > XML. I'm not in a hurry, though, because what is there right now is
>
> I feel good about it. The important thing is support in Makefiles XML
> conversion to other formats like HTML, PDF and man. It's strange if
> after release almost nobody has idea how create PDF docs.
>
> > almost equivalent. I've also tried out the po2xml thingy and it seems
> > to work, but translating about 10000 strings seems to be a daunting
> > task.
>
> Be optimistic! ;-)
>
> Karel
>
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