[publican-list] Dbfo keep-together instructions stripped out by publican?

[Norman Dunbar]

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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