[TYPO3] Documentation by TYPO3 with pdf-renderer

[ries van Twisk]

Hey Virgil,

there are some pretty decent frontends for it nows days.
We do use LaTeX for rendering full color catalogs for over a year now.
This does work spotless and creates beautiful catalogs without a  
worrying
if the system will work, how it will look... etc etc. I can send you a  
sample of you like...


As a type setter, LaTeX truly rocks and there is hardly now other  
(free) system that can come even
close to the quality of TeX, even OO does a bad jon compared to a real  
typesetting system.

But yes it comes at a price and LaTeX does have a learning curve.
However once data is stored in a good database (like TYPO3) then you  
can go
in many directions when it come of generation of final documents.
Personally I don't find TYPO3 as a good editor for large documents,
however it's not bad for it's price and we all know how it works which  
makes the learning curve low
for editors.

Ries



On Mar 17, 2008, at 9:45 PM, virgil huston wrote:

> Hi Ries,
>
> I will use LaTex if you teach me how :-) I just was reminded when I  
> read
> your message that TYPO3 is not the most difficult software I ever  
> tried to
> learn, LaTex was! It made absolutely no sense at all. I think this  
> is not a
> good option unless things have change in the last 2 or 3 year and it  
> has a
> good frontend.
>
> Cheers,
> Virgil
>
> On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 10:31 PM, ries van Twisk <typo3 at rvt.dds.nl>  
> wrote:
>
>> To give you all a other option there is something called latex,
>> it takes a our or 2 to get used to... But then you can render in any
>> format perfectly.
>> LaTeX was created for documentation creation for academic uses, book
>> creations
>> where you can concentrate on writing rather then markup which is why
>> most people
>> spend half of the time in there documents just to make it look good..
>>
>>
>> However I do feel that OO is better suited and easy to use for
>> everybody,
>> except for the Letter/a4 issue... but handy made a good suggestion to
>> solve that, but needs
>> testing I assume.
>>
>> I do feel that TYPO3 is not a good solution for serious documentation
>> generation like Daniel suggested.
>> making good looking PDF files out of any webside, TYPO3 or not is
>> hard, but not impossible because
>> of the way TYPO3 stored information. But a simple html2pdf tool will
>> not do the trick. You then need to dive
>> into XSLT already to make it work reliable...
>>
>> just my two cents...
>>
>> Ries
>>
>>
>> On Mar 17, 2008, at 6:44 PM, virgil huston wrote:
>>
>>> One question. Is there a way to have pages not A4. A4 really messes
>>> up US
>>> printers. I have seen cases where printers are "down" for days. Is
>>> there a
>>> way to make a choice between A4 and the US letter size in these  
>>> cases.
>>>
>>> Virgil
>>>
>>> On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 8:41 AM, Daniel Bruessler
>>> <danielb at typo3.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hallo Andreas,
>>>>
>>>> yes, you're right TYPO3 would be the best choice.
>>>>
>>>> Is there a pdf-renderer extension in TER that does automatic
>>>> page-breaks? We really need a tool that does NOT have fixed pages.
>>>>
>>>> The copy-and-paste of the RTE is really good - it allows to add
>>>> pictures
>>>> without uploading.
>>>>
>>>> Cheers!
>>>> Daniel
>>>>
>>>>> Best of all : We already HAVE THIS TOOL!!!
>>>>>
>>>>> USE TYPO3
>>>>> it provides workspaces
>>>>> it provides versioning
>>>>> it provides multiple language
>>>>> it provides one of the best user managements
>>>>> it can read/import OO/Word/PDF
>>>>> it has a realtext Editor with lots of features
>>>>> It provides a much better way then google docs or another tool to
>>>>> insert
>>>>> CODE examples
>>>>> can create PDF
>>>>> it can be printed as a complete BOOK (EXT:pipeline)
>>>>> an online Version and a printed Version could be combined in One
>>>>> Tree.
>>>>> Parts of "Translations" could be reused for several Levels
>>>>> Andi
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Ries van Twisk
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PostgreSQL DB-Architect
email: ries at vantwisk.nl
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Phone: + 1 810-476-4193