[FM Discuss] Modified PDF for MYOSA

[James Simmons]

I'm not sure what the issue is here.  I have a hard time telling one
font from another, unless the font is something really garish like
"Aladdin".  For the hell of it I did a PDF of my book using Aladdin
(but not changing anything else) and the results are here:

http://objavi.flossmanuals.net/books/ActivitiesGuideSugar-en-2010.08.26-15.54.34.pdf

I don't know what the deal is with Century Gothic, but that's clearly Aladdin.

James Simmons


On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 3:12 AM, adam <adam at xs4all.nl> wrote:
> hey,
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> Please send this bug report asap or link the bug report you are
> referring to as I would like to know what the issue is. As I see it
> Booki supports embedded fonts but not @font-face. In fact it embeds all
> fonts including the 'default' fonts that are not normally required for
> displaying pdf (except PoD services require them to be embedded to we do
> it)
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> As I understand it @font-face should work. I havent tested it, so if you
> could test andtrac the results that would be great
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> adam
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> On Wed, 2010-08-25 at 14:45 -0700, Rebecca Hargrave Malamud wrote:
>> Hello, James -
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>> We're not seeing the CSS changes you describe using Objavi - when we
>> download the transformed PDF from the link below, all of the styling
>> information is stripped out. I experienced this same phenomenon a couple
>> of weeks ago when I tried to upload our custom-designed ePub to generate
>> a PDF.
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>> As I understand it, Booki does not support @font-face or embedded fonts
>> - these bugs are reported in the Booki trac -
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>> http://booki-dev.flossmanuals.net/report/1?asc=0&sort=ticket
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>> As it stands right now, the Rural Design Collective will be using
>> PrinceXML to convert our custom-designed PDF to make sure it looks the
>> way Christopher designed it.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Rebecca Malamud
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>> James Simmons wrote:
>> > I have made a stab at doing an improved style sheet for "Make Your Own
>> > Sugar Activities!" to get the fonts in the printed book to a readable
>> > size.  What I've done is to change the font size of both normal and
>> > formatted text to 12pt, remove the style that translated headings to
>> > all upper case, and changed the font family to Century Gothic.  To get
>> > the code listings to fit using 12 pt Courier I'm going to have to
>> > print out all the pages and very carefully re-wrap lines that get
>> > truncated.  I will start on that tonight.  The results I'm getting so
>> > far are here:
>> >
>> > http://objavi.flossmanuals.net/books/ActivitiesGuideSugar-en-2010.08.24-21.20.26.pdf
>> >
>> > If you're thinking about taking the MYOSA CSS challenge this is what
>> > you'd have to compete with.  I'm pretty well sold on using 12 pt
>> > courier for the code samples, plus 12 pt font for the Normal text.
>> > The rest of the styles are up for grabs.
>> >
>> > James Simmons
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