[Booki-dev] Re : PDF Export

[Cedric Gémy]

Hum, i checked quickly for the reader interface and from the export tab. It
seems to be better, but the PDF still don't match the norms.

One thing sure, they result is not the same.

cedric

2011/12/13 <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 outdated, and the one on GitHub is empty (only a README file).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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