Dear Andre, The image scaling is indeed an issue with the Apache FOP. RenderX XEP should work fine. Regarding task, I get the expected output with a sample document like below: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <?oxygen RNGSchema="http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/5.0/rng/docbook.rng" type="xml"?> <article xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" version="5.0"> <title>Test article</title> <sect1> <title>Test section</title> <task> <title>Task</title> <procedure> <step> <para>First step</para> </step> <step> <para>Second step</para> </step> </procedure> </task> </sect1> </article> Please verify if you have problems with the above sample. I believe Open Office expects the document to be compressed (as a ZIP archive). You probably need to perform that after the transformation, before opening the file in Open Office. Best Regards, George -- George Cristian Bina <oXygen/> XML Editor, Schema Editor and XSLT Editor/Debugger http://www.oxygenxml.com On 3/1/10 2:30 PM, André Wyrwa wrote:
Hei,
my name's Andre and i just joined the list.
I'm currently using a trial of oXygen Editor (the eclipse plugin installed in Aptana Studio) and am planning to buy the product.
I'm primarily using the Author at this stage as a DocBook IDE.
I'm not quite happy with the results of the transformation to PDF, particularly around Image scaling and general DocBook support.
Image scaling: It seems the PDF transformation always scales images. That seems somewhat logical. However, i'm writing software documentation with a lot of screenshots. Other PDF exporter processes (like the one in OOo) manage to translate the screenshot's pixel size into a print unit (mm/pc/in) that matches the original image size more adequately.
In the DocBook case, the stylesheet seems to make the images somewhat too large.
Also, i couldn't find a way to limit the width of the scaled image to a maximum, but keep lower images at their original scale.
Can anyone please help me with that?
Tag support: It seems the transformation is a little incomplete/doesn't support some DocBook tags. Particularly, i have some 'task's in there that don't seem to translate into the PDF (they plain disappear including all their descendants).
I'm using Apache FOP for FO processing and from what i gather that might be the problem. I'm running Linux and am happy to install xmlroff, if someone can confirm it helps. However, xmlroff seems incomplete, as well. Is there any 'complete' FO processor that would be the recommended choice?
What are others using for DocBook to PDF transformations? Should i go via LaTeX instead?
Lastly, i installed docbook2odf and setup a new transformation profile within oXygen that uses the docbook2odf stylesheets. Which at first sight seems to do the right thing, but when i try opening the resulting .odm (??) file in OpenOffice, the good thing throws me the ascii import dialog and i subsequently get the plain XML code in Writer.
Thanks for any help or pointers, upfront. Andre.
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