Re: docbook crossrefs

[Sander Vesik <Sander Vesik Sun COM>]

On Tue, 10 Dec 2002, Daniel Veillard wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 07:12:01PM +0100, Mathieu Lacage wrote:
> > Finally, since I have started dreaming openly, I'd like to point out
> > that the coolest thing we could do ever would be to have our own xsl:fo
> > xslt for xml docbook to render our source xml to pdf or ps with working
> > cross-refs in the resulting document. But, yeah, this is really a dream.
> 
>   Hum, docbook has generic FO stylesheets that can certainly be tweaked
> (well being subscribed to docbook-apps list, people definitely can configure
> stuff using parameters to the FO stylesheets).
> Now if you mean an FO to PDF processor, I humbly suggest to print the
> XSL (FO) spec to get an idea (have a few cartridge of black ink ready !)
> People seems to use db2pdf included in Red Hat 8.0, I think Tim Waugh 
> assembled this nice script with whatever tools are available.
> 

Right - but it relies on the document first being converted to PS and then
a post-conversion of PS to PDF, no? Any such step more or less kills PDF
specific features like links...

> Daniel
> 
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