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

[Jeff Fearn]

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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