[Booki-dev] Removing some unwanted pages from produced PDF, disabling alternative margins

[adam]

On 08/08/2011 02:10 PM, Jean-Noël Rivasseau wrote:
> I am not a Python coder, but since I am a professional programmer, I
> can perfectly understand what this Python file does.
>
> Then again, it's not a template then. It's hacking at the core source
> code, which I wanted to avoid. Is there any other way?

wkhtmltopdf takes the template and converts it to pdf, if you comment 
out the pages you dont want i think they will just be ignored, ie put 
<!-- [content] -->

around the template pages you dont want...you could try this..

adam


>
> On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 2:09 PM, adam<adam at flossmanuals.net>  wrote:
>> i think the file to edit is
>>
>> installdir/objavi/fmbooks.py
>>
>> how versed are you at python?
>>
>> adam
>>
>>
>>
>> On 08/08/2011 02:06 PM, Jean-Noël Rivasseau wrote:
>>>
>>> Hello
>>>
>>> I could not find any fmbook template. I did find two interesting
>>> templates:
>>>
>>> end_matter.en.html
>>> inside-front-cover.en.html
>>>
>>> If I hack those, I can control what goes into these pages. The problem
>>> is that I dont want those pages at all. I tried to remove those HTML
>>> files in the hope that Objavi would skip them, but the PDF generation
>>> then fails (logically, at the Generate preamble pdf, since it does not
>>> find it).
>>>
>>> So, if there a "master template"? Or can I disable the generation of
>>> preamble and end matter alltogether?
>>>
>>> On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 12:37 PM, adam<adam at flossmanuals.net>    wrote:
>>>>
>>>> hey :)
>>>>
>>>> On 08/08/2011 12:33 PM, Jean-Noël Rivasseau wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>
>>>>> Now that I managed to install Objavi correctly, I have 3 questions
>>>>> about the generated PDF (which is not yet perfect according to my
>>>>> needs):
>>>>>
>>>>> 1) How can I remove the (almost blank) page with the book license at
>>>>> the start? (we already have a hand written page where we explain our
>>>>> license).
>>>>
>>>> i think you need to hack the templates. check fmbook template and alter
>>>> that
>>>> as i believe it is the default
>>>>
>>>>> 2) How can I remove the (almost blank) page with the Made with booki
>>>>> content at the end?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> same
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> 3) Currently the PDF has alternating margins (on odd / even pages). I
>>>>> guess that would be great for publishing (actually printing the book)
>>>>> but we also want to have a web PDF version of the book. How can I
>>>>> disable these alternating margins? Choosing the "web"export from
>>>>> objavi does not work for us since it also suppresses the table of
>>>>> contents (which we need!)
>>>>
>>>> ooo...good question...um....luka?
>>>>
>>>> adam
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks for the help.
>>>>>
>>>>> Jean-Noel
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