Re: [Ilugc] Need help - HTML to PDF with Custom Fonts

[Shrinivasan T]

> If processing text to HTML/PDF is an acceptable option, there are
>
> tools like AsciiDoctor[1] that are wonderful. It allows you to generate
> HTML, PDF, EPUB etc. from marked up plain text. And the mark up very
> simple, it doesn't come in the way of content creation. It is a free
> software release under MIT license. You can give it a try. Thanks
>
>
> [1] http://asciidoctor.org/


As far as I know, asciidoc related tools wont work for unicode text.

We get the html file from pressbooks.com as
https://ia801504.us.archive.org/29/items/ManaosaiShortStories/Manaosai-short-stories.html

looking for a solution to convert this to A4 pdf and B7 size( 6 inch,
9cm x 12 cm) via command line.

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Re: [Ilugc] Need help - HTML to PDF with Custom Fonts

[Shrinivasan T]

> I have just released a XeTeX book template (under MIT license) to
> generate PDF from Emacs org-mode (plain text).
>
>   https://github.com/shakthimaan/xetex-book-template
>


Nice.

Pressbooks is not giving Tex kind of output.
But it gives a xhtml file.

See a sample here :
https://ia801504.us.archive.org/29/items/ManaosaiShortStories/Manaosai-short-stories.html

Is it possible to convert this file to A4 pdf and 6 inch PDF (9cm x 12 cm)
automatically ?

Thanks.


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Re: [Ilugc] Need help - HTML to PDF with Custom Fonts

[Shakthi Kannan]

Hi,

--- On Sat, Feb 13, 2016 at 5:36 AM, Shrinivasan T
 wrote:
| Is it possible to convert this file to A4 pdf and 6 inch PDF (9cm x 12 cm)
| automatically ?
\--

You are confusing content and presentation.

I already mentioned this to you earlier [1] that you need to get the
content in plain text format. Later, you have the option of generating
the book in any format for any medium.

Converting to a specific format may or may not fully solve your
current problem, but, it will not scale!

SK

[1] http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/pipermail/ilugc/2015-July/082579.html

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Re: [Ilugc] Need help - HTML to PDF with Custom Fonts

[Balachandran Sivakumar]

Hi Shrini

On Sat, Feb 6, 2016 at 2:30 AM, Shrinivasan T 
wrote:

>
> Looking for a solution to automate the process of converting XHTML to A4
> and B7 size PDFs so that we add a web interface, host in server, ask
> authors to upload epub or xhtml file to get PDF files as outputs.
>
>
 If processing text to HTML/PDF is an acceptable option, there are
tools like AsciiDoctor[1] that are wonderful. It allows you to generate
HTML, PDF, EPUB etc. from marked up plain text. And the mark up very
simple, it doesn't come in the way of content creation. It is a free
software release under MIT license. You can give it a try. Thanks


[1] http://asciidoctor.org/

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Re: [Ilugc] Need help - HTML to PDF with Custom Fonts

[Shakthi Kannan]

Hi,

--- On Sat, Feb 6, 2016 at 2:30 AM, Shrinivasan T
 wrote:
| We are looking for a solution to convert html pages to A4 pdf and B7 pdf
| for FreeTamilEbooks.com project
\--

I have just released a XeTeX book template (under MIT license) to
generate PDF from Emacs org-mode (plain text).

  https://github.com/shakthimaan/xetex-book-template

You can use multiple natural languages in the same book. The example/
in the sources has both Tamil and English. A sample PDF generated is
available at:

  http://shakthimaan.com/dump/book.pdf

The content in the book is just to fill up the page. Most of the
ground work is done, but, I am still working on styling.

SK

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[Ilugc] Need help - HTML to PDF with Custom Fonts

[Shrinivasan T]

We are looking for a solution to convert html pages to A4 pdf and B7 pdf
for FreeTamilEbooks.com project


Training authors to create ebooks themself using Pressbooks.com
They can export epub, mobi, xhtml from pressbooks.


Now, few volunteers are converting xhtml to PDF by printing from Firefox.
by changing the margin and printer settings in Firefox.

see point 8 at
https://goinggnu.wordpress.com/2014/02/01/how-to-create-an-ebook-for-free-tamil-ebooks-com/

Many authors find that this is difficult.

Looking for a solution to automate the process of converting XHTML to A4
and B7 size PDFs so that we add a web interface, host in server, ask
authors to upload epub or xhtml file to get PDF files as outputs.

Explored PhantomJS
http://we-love-php.blogspot.co.uk/2012/12/create-pdf-invoices-with-html5-and-phantomjs.html

We want to use custom TTF fonts for Tamil.
Ila Sundaram-10.TTF is the font we want to use.

Tried to set this font via CSS using @font-face.
But the PDFs are not using this font.

Explored wkhtmltopdf
It is not rendering B7 size properly and can not set custom font.

Looking for volunteers to explore the PhantomJS or wkhtmltopdf to generate
PDF files from HTML with custom font.

reply here or contact me if you are interested to volunteer.

Thanks.



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