Re: [Boost-users] Building PDF with Open Source Solution

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Building PDF with Open Source Solution
From: John Maddock (boost.regex_at_[hidden])
Date: 2012-06-07 12:56:40

> This is slightly off topic.
>
> I have a question how pdf's are build within the boost build system.
> As far as I could figure it out the build system uses a proprietary
> solution called RenderX XEP or so. I'm wondering if there are open
> source solutions out there that could be used to generate boost's
> documentation as pdf files?

Apache FOP is the only open source solution I know of: 
http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/

Unfortunately it still hasn't got past a 1.0 release, and last I checked 
it's rendering was still far inferior to XEP - basically building with XEP 
is pretty much a "fire and forget" process, while building with FOP quite 
often either mangles the docs or uses rather unfortunate pagination choices 
:(

John.