On Thu, Jun 08, 2000 at 12:34:48PM +0200, Caolan McNamara wrote:
> At 11:12 08.06.00 +0100, Conor Daly wrote:
> >Print to PDF???
> >
> >How??
> >
> >Or, more to the point, anyone know of a tool to do sgml to pdf? It's not in
> >the sgmltools package and I wanna write a HOWTO.
>> Well howtos are supposed to be written in docbook now and for docbook the
> db2pdf script does a good conversion. db2pdf was definitely included with the
> cygnus|redhat DocBook Tools, but Im hazy as to the exact relationships
> between all the docbook support tools and external converters. But I found
> this http://nis-www.lanl.gov/~rosalia/mydocs/docbook-intro.html> handy to figure out my install needs and get up and running.
Cool, I just tried db2pdf on my machine here (I learnt DocBook so all my
internal docs are in it) and it crapped out using more memory than TeX would allow
it. I'll have to investigate that.. I will now start handing out docs in
SGML, RTF, HTML and PDF formats :)
L.
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