[oXygen-user] new here...with a DocBook question

[George Cristian Bina]

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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