[Booki-dev] Re : PDF Export

[Cedric Gémy]

OK Tuukka,

i already have a local copy of the repository. I'll try to get deeper
inside.

Because wanted to have an overview of the all publishing possibilities, i
just check our arduino's epub.

Attached : the results for info, in case some didn't try.


2011/12/15 Tuukka Hastrup <Tuukka.Hastrup at iki.fi>

> 2011-12-12 23:03, Nicolas Dufour kirjoitti:
>
>  De : Cedric Gémy<cedric.gemy at gmail.com> There might be some
>>> settings to change between PDFtk and other used tools in the export
>>> process.
>>>
>>
>> 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<http://itextpdf.com/terms-of-use/index.php>
>> ).
>> 2. When the PDF is generated from Objavi: GPL Ghostscript 8.71.
>> 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?
>>
>
> Objavi uses multiple commands in its html-to-pdf processing pipeline:
>
> * wkhtmltopdf to convert the content from html to pdf
> * pdfnup to make multi-column pdf
> * pdfedit script wk_objavi.qs to post-process the pdf
> * bookland and ps2pdf to create a barcode
> * pdftk to rotate a pdf
> * pdftk to combine the book part pdfs into one final pdf
> * gs to embed all fonts in the pdf
>
> Not all of these are used always (depending on the settings and the exact
> pipeline used). I suppose that's why the PDF generator of the final file
> varies.
>
>
>  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 outdated, and the one on GitHub is empty (only a README file).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?
>>
>
> I think the latest published version is still at
>
> git://booki-dev.flossmanuals.**net/git/objavi2.git<http://booki-dev.flossmanuals.net/git/objavi2.git>
>
> We have something of a resource problem in cleaning up and documenting
> things. The Objavi git repo is pending on someone to rewrite its history to
> purge some historical files before pushing the repo to GitHub.
>
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