[Booki-dev] Re : PDF Export

[adam at flossmanuals.net]

Weird indeed. I am busy all day with a sprint but it might be worth
emailing aco direct about this to get his attanetion. You could also try
pinging him in irc on the flossmanuals channel.
Adam


>> 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 outdated, and the one on GitHub is empty (only a README file).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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