Re: pdf creation suggestions
grandmother <grandmother@telia.com> writes:
> pdf creation suggestion
>
> What are the choises for pdf creation with "advanced" layout.
You haven't really described what you want at all. Lots of things
create PDFs, though; there are multiple routes to go from LaTeX to
PDF, for example, and if what you're trying to do is a presentation
there are several LaTeX packages to do that. You could also do
SGML/XML to PDF (via jade/pdfjadetex or xsltproc/FOP), but the tools
are poorly documented, hard to understand, and don't always work
well.[1]
If you insist on "advanced", though, you can hand-write PostScript and
then use ps2pdf or something equivalent to generate a PDF. :-)
[1] The criticism applies more to the FOP (XML) path than the jade
(SGML) path, though; I've had big issues with FOP, in part because
Java isn't well-supported in Debian. You also get to try to write
code entirely in XML if you want to use a non-default stylesheet,
which is a big pain. The upside (if you're an SGML junkie) is that
the documentation for XSLT is at least readily available from the W3C
Web site, and while DSSSL uses Scheme, the specification is hard to
find and hard to read. The last time I needed to do this sort of
thing, I used LaTeX and the prosper package for slides.
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