For now use: db2html gstreamer-manual (On debian, db2html is in the cygnus-stylesheets package) You will need the png support for docbook (see GNOME documentation project) convert the fig images to png with: fig2dev -L png -s 16 fig/<input file>.fig images/<input file>.png Put a link in the gstreamer-manual directory with ln -s ../images gstreamer-manual/images point your browser to gstreamer-manual/gstreamer.html Fix typing errors and correct bad english. Let me know about the stuff that needs some more explanation. Let me know about the structure of the document.