RE: Converting HTML docs to PDFs

["Mike Feimster" <mike -dot- feimster -at- acstechnologies -dot- com>]

Renee, 

It might be easier to convert the XML to PDF. There are a couple of
alternatives.

1. Use XSLT and XSL-FO to create the PDF. Apache FOP is a free XSL-FO
processor and there are commercial processors available as well. There
are several free XSLT processors. The dollar cost for tools is low, but
the pain might be high. This requires programming and it might be
quicker to hire a consultant.

2. Both FrameMaker 7.x and Word 2003 allow you to import XML docs. The
specifics are different, but basically you create a template and some
supporting files. When you import the XML doc, you have a nicely
formatted Frame or Word doc.

Finally, do you have a HATT, such as RoboHelp or Doc2Help? If so, and it
has a Print Doc feature, you could always create a new project, import
the HTML files into the project, and then generate the PDF from there.
The upside is that you can get a PDF quickly. The downside is that it is
not repeatable; you'll need to go through the whole process for every
change.

Mike
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