Re: [docbook-apps] Preparing a stylesheet for HTML and PDF Output/ Stating the base.dir for HTML and PDF: How can you define the base.dir PDF, using the same relative path as used for HTML

Hi Daniel,

Yes, it won't work for PDF because the PDF is not 
generated by the XSL stylesheet, but by the XSL-FO  processor working on 
the FO output of the stylesheet.  Placement of the PDF has to be done by 
the script that runs the process.  Using the XSL processor's -o 
option in the script can do that, as Peter mentioned.

 

The XSL could be customized to output the FO using 
the same mechanism as for HTML output, but the XSL could not run the 
XSL-FO  processor to complete the PDF.

 

Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises


 

 

  
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  stylesheet for HTML and PDF Output/ Stating the base.dir for HTML and PDF: How 
  can you define the base.dir PDF, using the same relative path as used for 
  HTML

  

Hey, 

Currently we are finalizing our HTML stylesheet for 
  DocBook. Since our documents are to be released as HTML and PDF and our 
  documentation consists of about 20 different documents with more than 1000 
  pages total, we need to find a way to state a relative path in our stylesheet 
  as the base.dir that will work out for both. We do not want to store all 
  files, PDF and HTML, in the same folder. What we need is a nice and easy way 
  to define where the output is to be stored. 

For HTML we used <xsl:param name="base.dir" 
  select="concat($webhelp.base.dir,'/content/')"/>. 
This won´t work for PDF. 

We had a similar problem with the role attribute regarding 
  screenshots that had to be scaled differently according if we had a PDF or 
  HTML output , but we managed to define "when to use what". 
  

Is there any solution for our 
  problem? 

Greetings, 

Daniel 
  Keyes 

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