From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Sep 5 20:33:54 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C044D16A4CE; Sun, 5 Sep 2004 20:33:54 +0000 (GMT) Received: from abigail.blackend.org (blackend.org [212.11.35.229]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9EC0C43D1D; Sun, 5 Sep 2004 20:33:53 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from marc@blackend.org) Received: from abigail.blackend.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) i85KXooZ047835; Sun, 5 Sep 2004 22:33:51 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from marc@abigail.blackend.org) Received: (from marc@localhost) by abigail.blackend.org (8.12.11/8.12.11/Submit) id i85KXo2A047834; Sun, 5 Sep 2004 22:33:50 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from marc) Date: Sun, 5 Sep 2004 22:33:50 +0200 From: Marc Fonvieille To: Murray Stokely Message-ID: <20040905203350.GB46611@abigail.blackend.org> References: <20040905195932.GG1107@freebsdmall.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040905195932.GG1107@freebsdmall.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-Useless-Header: blackend.org X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.10-PRERELEASE cc: doceng@freebsd.org cc: doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: More thoughts about slides X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 05 Sep 2004 20:33:54 -0000 On Sun, Sep 05, 2004 at 12:59:32PM -0700, Murray Stokely wrote: [...] > As far as tools, I've recently added support for USE_FOP and USE_XEP > since PassiveTeX does not support the background-image property that I > wanted for my stylesheet layer. XEP seems to be the clear leader for > generating PDF output, but it is a commercial product. Apache's free > FOP tool (java) is quite good. > > Any thoughts or suggestions about this process? If you're in the > habit of giving presentations about FreeBSD, what would you look for > to consider a DocBook/XML based solution over other (WYSIWYG) tools? [...] I use to do slides with prosper, it's very flexible and just uses the vanilla teTeX port; therefore no problem to generate the pdf file. I would use DocBook slides just for very simple slides without animation, graphics or sophisticated layout. In fact last time I looked in DocBook slides, I realised that it'd require a lot of work to do a custom complicated layout. It's why we really need some good templates to use. Marc