Re: Multiplatform toolchain for outputting "nice" PDF

A year and a few months later, here we are, ready for an upgrade.

We're moving to a Ubuntu container that has fop 2.9.

Now, I'd like to move to DocBook 5.1 but I'd like to know if there is there=
 an online document that summarizes the major differences between DocBook 4=
.5 and 5.1.

Thank you in advance.

> On Nov 15, 2022, at 1:16, Jean-Christophe Helary <lists@traduction-libre.=
org> wrote:
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> For some historical reasons (and maybe others, I don't know), the tool ch=
ain used in the project where I'm in charge of the manual uses a very outda=
ted tool chain based on the following elements:
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> =E2=80=A2 DocBook XSL Stylesheets 1.75.2 ("dbk") or above
> =E2=80=A2 DocBook XML 4.5 ("docbook-xml-4.5")
> =E2=80=A2 fop 1.1 ("fop-1.1")
> =E2=80=A2 libxml2 2-2.7.7 ("libxml2-2.7.7")
> =E2=80=A2 Saxon 6-5-5 ("saxon")
> =E2=80=A2 XMLmind Web Help Compiler ("whc")
> =E2=80=A2 Ant 1.7.1 or above ("apache-ant")
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> I'm still investigating the reasons why we're stuck 15 years in the past,=
 but I'd like to move on.
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> Currently, the PDF that's built from our DocBook set is, not visually ple=
asant, to say the least.
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> There are few contributors to the documentation but ideally I'd like some=
thing that works equally well on the three major platforms that are Linux /=
 Windows and macOS.
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> A friend of mine who also is a DITA specialist converted the set to DITA =
and semi-automatically produced a really nice PDF and there are no reasons =
why we would not be able to have something equally nice with a modern DocBo=
ok toolchain.
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> So the question is, what are the options?
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> Thank you in advance for your help.
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> Jean-Christophe Helary @brandelune
> https://traductaire-libre.org
> https://mac4translators.blogspot.com
> https://sr.ht/~brandelune/omegat-as-a-book/