[FM Discuss] Modified PDF for MYOSA

[James Simmons]

Rebecca,

What kind of page breaks are you seeing?  Are there images being split
across pages?  If there are I probably *should* resize them for better
results.  I use several full page images where a cropped image might
do just as well.  What I saw in MYOSA that I didn't care for was
section headings at the bottom of a page where the section began on
the following page.  Also, I had a table entry centered vertically
that split the word in half vertically on a page boundary.  I *think*
I got around that by aligning the text vertically.

I might be able to force a page break before a section begins using
styles.  I haven't tried it.

I'm not familiar with Prince XML.  If you want to consider the RDC
edition of the book a separate production from the FM edition so you
can use Prince XML I don't think anyone would mind.  You could even
put that edition on Lulu if you wanted to, I guess.  For myself, since
my book is endorsing Booki I'm going to prepare books for the FM book
shop only using FM tools.

James Simmons


On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 7:42 AM, Rebecca Hargrave Malamud
<webchick at invisible.net> wrote:
> Hello -
>
> Christopher and were successful in our OBJAVI experiments yesterday using
> the @font-face method and uploading the fonts to the Rural Design Collective
> server. I was somewhat surprised that these free font repositories don't
> allow linking to the actual free fonts especially since there is a precedent
> for linking to Javascript libraries for online display - that will prohibit
> use for many without their own method to upload fonts.
>
> So it looks like we will be using Booki after all! I am a little concerned
> about the unsightly page breaks since there are so many screen captures in
> the book. I know we would have more control if we use PrinceXML rather than
> attempt to size images in FLOSS Manuals to get better results (something no
> doubt James would not want us to do since it would interfere with his
> output).
>
> So we still have the illustrations to upload, plus some screen captures -
>>
>> i think actually its every free font in the world...
>>
>
> That would be impossible to do ... of course, I used to have a sticker on my
> computer that said "Whoever Dies With The Most Fonts Wins" :-)
>
> Rebecca Malamud
>
>
>> if you want to use non-free fonts you can use @font-face to define them
>> http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-fonts/#the-font-face-rule
>>
>> you need to out the fonts online and link to them with this method.
>>
>> as discussed before however, im not sure this actually works...it
>> should, but we havent tested it...so if you try it then report back with
>> the results :)
>>
>> adam
>>
>
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