http://www.linuxfocus.org/English/May2000/article152.shtml This article describes how you can use DocBook to develop PDF documents and will cover tools you need to edit DocBook articles and tools to translate them to PDF documents. Since this article only names the software tools you need and does not tell how to install them, this article is intended for experienced Linux users.
The first part of this article will focus on the format of DocBook documents. When DocBook is introduced, i will try to explain what tools are needed to convert these DocBook documents to PDF documents which can be viewed with Acrobat. [source: linuxfocus.org]