[Booki-dev] [@Doug / @Aco] Issues with publishing the 2nd Edition of "Collaborative Futures"

[adam hyde]

On Fri, 2010-07-02 at 17:24 -0400, Mushon Zer-Aviv wrote:
> Hi guys,
> 
> 
> I'm sorry that my first email to the list is me bugging about a bug,
> but still...
> 
> My name is Mushon Zer-Aviv, I am one of the authors of the
> Collaborative Futures book.
> 
> 
>      1. We are just concluding a rewrite sprint and I'm trying to
>         generate the PDF but cannot get the images in there.
>         I see this is a known bug and it has been going on for a few
>         months now:
>         http://booki-dev.flossmanuals.net/ticket/165
>         We can't really publish the book until it is fixed, again
>         sorry to bug with this, but is there an ETA for closing this?
>         *Aco tells me this is currently on his plate
>         

you can publish...but dont use the images. for cf i dont think this is
an adequate back up strategy for now


>      1. I also have other publishing issues I would love to run by you
>         guys. For example the first chapter is not publishing:
>         You can see it's there in the html, but not in the PDF.
>         Doug, any idea?
>         

thats similar to a bug i filed about the audacity manual



adam



>      1. We're seeing some weird characters in the book like – and â
>         €™(see chapter 4)
>         It might be due to special characters being copy-pasted from
>         other editors
>         Is there a way around a tedious search & destroy? Is that
>         possibly font specific?
>         
>      2. This might be a known issue again (as it was the same case in
>         the previous book) but is there a way to not have extra white
>         pages?
>         Check page 34, 52,  on
>         http://objavi.flossmanuals.net/books/collaborativefutures-en-2010.07.02-23.00.16.pdf


>      1. Any simple way of making sure subheadings are not stuck at the
>         bottom of the page (see page 54, 56 & 92), or should I enter a
>         page break (how do I do that)?
> 
> 
> I'm on IRC, would love to get some pointers.
> 
> Let me know if I should turn any of these into tickets.
> 
> 
> Thanks for the great work, Booki and Objavi are really awesome, this
> is super inspiring to me, really!!!
> 
> 
> cheers,
> 
> 
> -- 
> 
> 
> Mushon Zer-Aviv
> ע Shual.com - design studio
> §  ShiftSpace.org - an opensource layer above any website
> ¶  Mushon.com - blog
> × @mushon - Tweet me
> + 1-646-283-6057 
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Booki-dev mailing list
> Booki-dev at lists.flossmanuals.net
> http://lists.flossmanuals.net/listinfo.cgi/booki-dev-flossmanuals.net

-- 
Adam Hyde
Founder FLOSS Manuals
German mobile : + 49 177 4935122
Email : adam at flossmanuals.net
irc: irc.freenode.net #flossmanuals

"Free manuals for free software"
http://www.flossmanuals.net/about