Re: Output Postscript and Plain Text from SGML

Subject: Re: Output Postscript and Plain Text from SGML
From: "W. Eliot Kimber" <eliot@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 05 May 1998 12:15:38 -0500
At 12:58 PM 5/5/98 -0400, Jack Fitzpatrick wrote:
>I need to batch convert a couple of thousand XML documents a day
>interchangeably to Postscript (XML-> Postscript) and plain text (XML-> text)
>on a Unix box.  DSSSL seems like a good start, but how do I finish?   Is
>there a Postscript backend for Jade or can I convert TeX to Postscript?  I'm
>considering writing some Perl to convert the flow object tree to MIF and
>processing through FrameMaker, but there must be an easier way.  I need
>excellent table and shading capabilities.

You can use the MIF back end for jade, available at
"http://itrc.uwaterloo.ca/~kmarszal/mif/"; to generate MIF and use Frame's
batch formatting feature to compose to Postscript (or PDF).

Cheers,

Eliot

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