Posted by ChrLipp on
URL: https://discuss.asciidoctor.org/PDF-creation-with-Gradle-tp661p665.html

When I look at the different approaches the solutions above are using to generate PDF, I come to the following list:

- DOCBOOK -> Latex -> PDF (Pandoc)
- DOCBOOK -> Apache FOP -> PDF (Sandoc, asciidoctor-fopdf, jocbook, Apache FOP, TSSG 3MT Documentation System)
- DOCBOOK -> HTML -> PDF (Gradleware)

So mostly used is DOCBOOK -> Apache FOP -> PDF. Even if each solution provides its own implementation for the conversion, the stylesheets are the interesting parts which makes the difference.

pressgang delivers the stylesheets and fonts in an own Maven artifact, asciidoctor-fopdf mixes stylesheets with the implementation of the conversion.