[FM Discuss] Pretty good PDF for Make Your Own Sugar Activities!

[Rebecca Hargrave Malamud]

Hello -

Oceana is committed to creating a cover for MYOSA - she is starting to 
get caught up in the excitement of leaving for school. She took an XO 
laptop home with her to get the keyboard right. I know the emphasis here 
can be on rapid development, but collaboration should provide various 
members of a team to have the time and resources to do their piece to 
the best of their ability. I will always support quality product over 
life in a nanosecond world*  :-)

We awarded the Kickstarter scholarships at #rdcHQ Hacker Wednesday 
yesterday - it was a wonderful event. We wired Oceana's scholarship 
directly to her college fund. Thank you, James, for taking the time to 
video in for the festivities! It meant a lot to her family.

Christopher and I are looking forward to James post. We talked about it 
a bit with James about this at Hacker Wednesday. I am flummoxed that 
there are no hooks in the FM version to execute some of the same page 
break hacks that Mushon did for CF. I am certain they must live in the 
OBJAVI code, but we are up against a deadline to make this all work, and 
that seems like a pretty daunting investigative task ...

The RDC wants to use the high-resolution imagery and color screenshots 
for the Kickstarter backer edition, so I am back to the PrinceXML idea. 
I know PrinceXML is a "commercial" product - however they do have a free 
version that leaves a watermark in the upper-hand corner of every page. 
We may go this route.

Rebecca Malamud

*and I do think the CF book is a quality product - but not all 
collaborative working groups have the same dynamic -
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> Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2010 18:04:47 -0500
> From: James Simmons <nicestep at gmail.com>
> To: Anne Gentle <annegentle at justwriteclick.com>,
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> Subject: [FM Discuss] Pretty good PDF for Make Your Own Sugar
> 	Activities!
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> A pretty good PDF for "Make Your Own Sugar Activities!" may be downloaded here:
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> http://objavi.flossmanuals.net/books/ActivitiesGuideSugar-en-2010.09.01-23.19.03.pdf
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> I fixed up the page breaks I didn't like by adding <div> tags by hand
> to the text and defining a new style to for a page break after an
> element of that class.  Not the most elegant solution, but it worked.
> The stylesheet I used may be found here:
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> http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8919415/myosa.css
>
> Oceana Rain Fields may be providing a new cover illustration and a bio
> for the "About The Authors" chapter, but this PDF could be used to at
> least start revising the cover PDF.
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> I've looked it over and it looks pretty good to me, but as always if
> anyone else sees something that could be improved I'd be interested in
> hearing about it.
>
> Thanks,
>
> James Simmons
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