Hi Norm, have you rebuilt Publican from the SVN repo? We have done a lot
of work tweaking the CSS file used to create PDFs with wkhtmltopdf.
svn co http://svn.fedorahosted.org/svn/publican/branches/publican-2x
These changes, and hopefully a few more, will be in Publican 2.9, due
out ... hopefully soon O_O
Cheers, Jeff.
On 01/27/2012 07:20 PM, Norman Dunbar wrote:
Morning Jared,
Ok, I tried wkhtmltopdf after installing the QT stuff needed by the two
rpms you linked me to.
Good points:
It's very fast indeed!
The output format appears quite nice, as you say, fantastic looking
documents.
Bad points (for me anyway):
The front cover image is missing and I have a lovely set of scroll bars
where it should be. :-(
Paging is ruined - nothing throws to a new page any more - sections,
chapters, parts etc, all start just below where the last "bit" finished.
Every part, chapter and section has a table of contents present, only
the book itself should have one.
Every single table now splits over a page, but even worse, using FOP I
did get a copy of the table headers on the continuation. Not any more. :-(
I presume the above is due to the initial conversion from XML to HTML
being an html-single - there are no page breaks - so tables etc don't
split in the html, but when converted to pdf, oh boy!
But the worst thing of all for a printed document, the indexing. I have
4 (yes, overkill perhaps, but that's how it is!) different indices and
instead of having page numbers, they have the section header instead.
I'm afraid it's not for me - yet - as it's not producing anything like a
decent, printable pdf document. Sorry.
Appreciate you taking the time to remind me of this utility, but it's
not quite ready for mainstream yet - at least, as far as my book is
concerned.
Thanks.
Cheers,
Norm.
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