Re: [docbook-apps] PDF customization questions from newbie

Johnny

 

All three items are quite easily doable.You need to have a customization 
layer that "adjusts" the builtin capabilities. Bob Stayton's book is a 
must. I still reference it even after years of working with Docbook. And this is 
the correct forum for getting those answers.

 

I would suggest doing one of these first and get that working and then move 
on to all of the other issues.

I am including my own header with logo stylesheet that you can examine and 
modify as you wish. It may get you started in the right direction. I will also 
include the shading of the <programlisting> which you should be able to 
modify to work like you want.

 

Let me know if that helps.

 

Cheers,

Dean Nelson

 

 

In a message dated 2/10/2011 2:41:12 A.M. Pacific Standard Time, 
 writes:

Hi, 
  recently I got started with my first docbook document, and I am very 
  
satisfied with the great possibilities to publish a number of output 
  formats 
from a single structured document.

Coming from LaTeX, I am 
  looking for possibilities to customize high quality PDF 
output. For 
  example, I'd like to modify paragraph indentation, font sizes, line 
  
spacing, page numbering, page headers and footers etc. Ideally I am 
  looking for 
a gallery of document layouts from which I can choose one and 
  maybe fine tune, 
as it is possible under LaTeX by choosing from a large 
  number of document 
classes (like e.g. koma script).

Some help is 
  given at http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/PrintOutput.html. But 
  
those  options are too limited to do things like putting a logo into 
  the page 
header, numbering frontmatter pages like i,ii,iii,iv,... and only 
  the main 
document 1,2,3,..., putting a light yellow background below 
  verbatim (code) text 

boxes, etc. (If someone points me to an 
  explanation how to achieve these three 
options - logo, page numbering, 
  code background color - I might have a better 
idea where to look for other 
  solutions in the future.)

Should I go the DBLatex way and change the 
  intermediate LaTeX file to use the 
desired document class? Or can I find 
  an idiot-proof PDF customization tutorial 
somewhere that doesn't require 
  me to learn the low-level PDF language?

Thank 
  you
Johnny

      
  

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