diff --git a/dcapi/doc/Makefile.am b/dcapi/doc/Makefile.am
index 3140a14b2c..b0169e0ba8 100644
--- a/dcapi/doc/Makefile.am
+++ b/dcapi/doc/Makefile.am
@@ -80,3 +80,10 @@ include $(top_srcdir)/gtk-doc.make
 # Other files to distribute
 # e.g. EXTRA_DIST += version.xml.in
 EXTRA_DIST += 
+
+# LaTeX output
+$(DOC_MODULE)-docs.tex: html-build.stamp customize.xsl
+	xsltproc --nonet --xinclude -o $(DOC_MODULE)-docs.tex customize.xsl $(DOC_MODULE)-docs.xml
+
+$(DOC_MODULE)-docs.pdf: $(DOC_MODULE)-docs.tex
+	rubber --pdf $(DOC_MODULE)-docs
diff --git a/dcapi/doc/customize.xsl b/dcapi/doc/customize.xsl
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..57c3dfd9c9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dcapi/doc/customize.xsl
@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+<?xml version='1.0'?>
+<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version='1.0'>
+    <xsl:import href="http://db2latex.sourceforge.net/xsl/docbook.xsl"/>
+
+    <!-- The language defaults to French... -->
+    <xsl:param name="l10n.gentext.default.language">en</xsl:param>
+    <xsl:param name="latex.babel.language">english</xsl:param>
+    <xsl:param name="latex.inputenc">latin1</xsl:param>
+
+    <!-- Set the document class explicitely. -->
+    <xsl:param name="latex.documentclass">book</xsl:param>
+    <!-- xsl:param name="latex.documentclass.book"></xsl:param -->
+
+    <!-- Times looks nice :-) -->
+    <xsl:param name="latex.document.font">times</xsl:param>
+
+    <!-- Turn on some extra packages -->
+    <xsl:param name="latex.use.fancyvrb">1</xsl:param>
+    <xsl:param name="latex.use.longtable">1</xsl:param>
+
+    <!-- Do not use graphics for admonitions -->
+    <xsl:param name="admon.graphics.path"></xsl:param>
+
+    <!-- Put titles after the object -->
+    <xsl:param name="formal.title.placement">
+	figure after
+	example after
+	equation after
+	table after
+	procedure after
+    </xsl:param>
+
+</xsl:stylesheet>