Process docbook to pdf within ant script, using DocBook XSL stylesheets and XSL Formatting Objects.
By default, ant4docbook embed apache fop to process pdf files.You may use your favorite fo processor as an external tool by setting property. For example :
<project name="docbook-ant-task-to-pdf"><property name="ant4docbook.fop" value="/path/to/apache-fop/fop" />[...]__</project>
<project name="docbook-ant-task-to-pdf" default="docbook-to-pdf"><taskdef name="dbk"classname="net.sourceforge.ant4docbook.taskdefs.DocbookTask"classpath="PATH/TO/ant4docbook.jar"/><target name="docbook-to-pdf"><dbk file="docbook.xml" tofile="generated-pdf-file.pdf" /></target><target name="docbook-to-pdf-with-many-parameters"><dbk file="docbook.xml" tofile="generated-pdf-file.pdf"parameters="pdf.properties" /></target><target name="docbook-to-pdf-with-some-parameters"><dbk file="docbook.xml" tofile="generated-pdf-file.pdf"><parameter name="paper.type" value="A4" /></dbk></target></project>