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

Jean-Noël Rivasseau elvanor at gmail.com
Mon Aug 8 06:54:12 PDT 2011


I did not try this because in the end I hacked the Python code to get
what I want. Now it's working great :)

I also solved my last problem; the gutter must be set to 0 for that.

Now I have one new issue: the images in the generated PDF look really
awful. All pixelated, as if they have been zoomed in. Any ways to fix
this?

On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 2:14 PM, adam <adam at flossmanuals.net> wrote:
>
>
> 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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