[Booki-dev] PDF Export

[Aleksandar Erkalovic]

i am not objavi expert but i am looking at this issue at the moment.
your notes in pdf are very helpful. did you use default CSS file or
you used your own?
what options did you use for PDF files (except different size)?

and you are right... it is not always "press and print" moment, but
one of the problems is
because we are not using simple pdf creation process. we are using
more complex process
that is sometimes hard to control... anyhoo, now that i am full time
working on booki will
have time to work on this issues. i will just need more help from you
guys when it comes to
showing me errors in print process :)

aco

On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 5:26 PM, Cedric Gémy <cedric.gemy at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello everyone
>
> During Free Font Booksprint we experienced difficulties in printing the book
> for proof-read (3 hours to print the manual around 100 pages at this time).
> And now, some users do feel difficulties with the PDF they get or PDF we
> send them.
>
> I've made some Export tested from our Ardour book and checked the quality in
> Acrobat Pro (unfortunately proprietary).
>
> I did an A4, an A5, and a A5 in grey scale.
>
> Attached, a sum up of the tests. It appears to me that they are really many
> issues with the PDFS. Why do i say that ? Just thinking of the print
> typology our users will use :
> 1. Personal printing
> 2. Semi-pro digital printing
> 3. Pro digital printing (normalized)
> 4. Pro offset printing (normalized)
>
> I fact, none of our PDFs match those cases.
>
> Some issues will be hard to understand but some are really interesting
> because of their strangeness :
> - page of different sizes in a single document
> - transparencies (where do they come from ?)
> - even the greyscale export is not pure black
>
> There might be some settings to change between PDFtk and other used tools in
> the export process.
>
> I uploaded the files and the test reports here :
> http://www.cgemy.com/public/fmfr/BookiTests.zip
>
> My opinion is :
> if we say people can print the books, it should be ok and easy to do (not
> being done in 3 hours or give problems) or we should avoid it. I can't thing
> Fmfr be responsible of such waste of time for its users or worst make them
> loose money because they did a certain amount of professional printing that
> occured to be bad.
> I would hide the settings that don't work correctly until they are really
> usable without too much trouble.
>
> until that...i'm beginning to check for a library that can be used for a
> free PDF checker
> and until i find it...
> Cheers
>
> --
> Cédric Gémy
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