[FM Discuss] Modified PDF for MYOSA

[John Curwood]

Hi James,

I had a quick look at objavi.  When you select "custom" for the CSS
mode, a list of available fonts you can use is on the right.
Unfortunately Century Gothic is not among the fonts installed on the
server so objavi will end up substituting it for another font.

Sorry about that,

John

On Thu, 2010-08-26 at 09:09 -0500, James Simmons wrote:
> 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,
> >
> >
> > 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)
> >
> > As I understand it @font-face should work. I havent tested it, so if you
> > could test andtrac the results that would be great
> >
> > adam
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Wed, 2010-08-25 at 14:45 -0700, Rebecca Hargrave Malamud wrote:
> >> Hello, James -
> >>
> >> 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.
> >>
> >> As I understand it, Booki does not support @font-face or embedded fonts
> >> - these bugs are reported in the Booki trac -
> >>
> >> http://booki-dev.flossmanuals.net/report/1?asc=0&sort=ticket
> >>
> >> 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
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> 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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