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Got the printer issue resolved after everyone came home; there was a difference of opinion regarding whether or not the printer was set as the print server's default. I am vindicated, la.

Then I discovered that I actually really do need PDFs, because a 12-meg HTML file, plus images, crushed three separate web browsers' attempts to print it. OmniWeb came closest to success by printing something, printing everything in fact, but insisting on putting all text and images at what looks like 1/12th scale.

My hopes rose when I found a Debian package called xmlto which purports to be an abstract front-end to XML workflows, and then fell again when I saw (through Google) that the arcane TeX error messages it spews on the XSL-FO->PDF step afflicts lots of other people too, and nobody's (publically) figured out how to fix it. My websearching was not totally in vain, thankfully: one poster mentioned HTMLDoc, a system for tranforming structured HTML into PDF, as a fine interim solution for DocBook work. I tried it, and lo! It actually seems to work. Yay.

So, I will have my hardcopy tomorrow. Now, I sleep.