Well, I've been working with Docbook for sometime and it's always a hassle to get things looking the way you want (for instance a PDF). There is a lot of support and documentation out there but it is still time-consuming to do what one would consider simple formatting in MS WORD.

Hopefully with the combination of RenderX's Free Personal Edition and XML Mind's FO Convertor it might be getting a bit easier.

Currently I've been using the Apache FOP FO processor and while things do get done there is a lot more formatting that I would like to see in my PDF documents. So far I have signed up and received my XEP personal key. I am hoping to give it a whirl sometime next month and put it to the test.

Tags: docbook, Xsl-fo, transforms