Re: [xmlroff] DocBook to PDF with xmlroff

[Tim W. <tw...@re...>]

On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 04:41:49PM +0000, Tony Graham wrote:

> For @white-space-treatment="preserve", modify your whitespace munging
> template to not apply to FOs with @white-space-treatment="preserve".
> xmlroff preserves whitespace by default.

That's what I tried to start with, and it gets me a segfault. :-)

> @background-image would probably be pretty simple (much simpler than
> fo:external-graphic): in theory, you'd modify area-to-pdf.c to do
> the FoDoc calls to render the background image before doing the
> FoDoc calls to render the text.  You may also have to implement
> FoDocGP functions to render the image, but how hard can that be?

Oh, now that I look more closely, it's the fo:external-graphic ones I
wanted.  The background-image things were for 'draft'-type watermarks,
and they come from docbook-xsl.

So is that more difficult?

Tim.
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