[Booki-dev] Re : PDF Export

[Cedric Gémy]

> To add a bit to the weirdness of the situation, according to the PDF
> properties of our documents, it seems that we have three different PDF
> generators.
> 1. When the PDF is generated from the export tab of booki, we have: iText
> 2.1.7 by 1T3XT/pdftk 1.41 (with potential license issues with iText, which
> is considered commercial because we use it to serve PDFs on the fly in a
> web application, see http://itextpdf.com/terms-of-use/index.php).
>

ouch

2. When the PDF is generated from Objavi: GPL Ghostscript 8.71.
>

hum, i even didn't check that. Mine are all generated from objavi.booki.cc.
saus itext from pdftk


> 3. When imported from Booki Publisher: wkhtmltopdf.
>
> I thought everything was linked to Objavi and thus used the same
> converter. Surprisingly it's not the case. Why?
>
> Cédric, it would be interesting if you could test the files exported with
> Ghostscript and wkhtmltopdf. Maybe one of them provides a better PDF
> quality than iText.
>

well, ok i'll try to do that tomorrow. But i guess Elisa already did try
with some different sources.
But i'll make the tests anyway, it will be interesting.


>
> Adam, the Objavi source code hosted in flossmanuals.net is quite
> outdated, and the one on GitHub is empty (only a README file). Could you
> please tell me where I can find the most recent files?
>
>
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