I gather from a 2004 thread in fedora-docs-list that the toolchain was moving to fop, but I don't see any fop yet in core or extras.

If you try to install fop separately it requires Jimi or JAI packages from Sun and Sun's installer scripts no longer work on Fedora because somebody broke "tail +n". Probably fixable, but what is the right direction for me to pursue?

I tried db2pdf but it seems to expect sgml, rather than xml?

On Wed, 2005-12-21 at 21:43 +0000, Tim Waugh wrote: > On Wed, Dec 21, 2005 at 01:29:07PM -0500, John Ellson wrote: > > >> I gather from a 2004 thread in fedora-docs-list that the toolchain was >> moving to fop, >> but I don't see any fop yet in core or extras. >> > Basically the toolchain is still more or less broken for PDF I'm > afraid. > There seems to be some progress is this area, according to this post: https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-docs-list/2005-December/msg00017.html

I set "JAVA_HOME=/usr" Is that reasonable on Fedora? It says to point it at the JDK. What JDK?

On Wed, 2005-12-21 at 20:11 -0500, John Ellson wrote: > David Malcolm wrote: > >> On Wed, 2005-12-21 at 21:43 +0000, Tim Waugh wrote: >> >> >>> On Wed, Dec 21, 2005 at 01:29:07PM -0500, John Ellson wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>>> I gather from a 2004 thread in fedora-docs-list that the toolchain was >>>> moving to fop, >>>> but I don't see any fop yet in core or extras. >>>> >>>> > I grabbed the latest FOP trunk from svn, but it still seems to have > Sun > dependencies. > There is an C alternative to FOP: http://xmlroff.sourceforge.net/news.html xmlroff (http://xmlroff.org) is an XSL Formatter written in C that produces PDF and PostScript. xmlroff 0.3.0 builds solely on open source software since it no longer supports a PDFlib backend. It also plays well with GNOME desktops since it uses Pango and the new PangoXSL library

As I don't use XSLFO now, but I did in the past with FOP, I didn't test this, but looks more attractive and lightweight (libxslt philosophy) than FOP.