[FM Discuss] http://en.flossmanuals.net/bin/objavi producing 0kb pdf for CiviCRM

[adam]

hey

so...you are using Gen 1 of Objavi which works great but is very touchy.
you have to give it a bit of love. Gen 2 - which we have prepared for
use with Booki but _also_ works with fm books
(http://objavi.floaamanuals.net) is a lot less touchy and pretty much
just spits out a book no matter what.

the options open to you are:
1. use objavi 2 and dev a new css
2. trouble shoot with objavi 1

looking at both options...here are some pointers (by the way I am glad
there are more and more people going directly to objavi than just me
these days...great to see it getting some use as these questions
attest)...

Objavi 1
* if the html is not clean it will probably work but there are some
killers ...I will list the ones I remember here:

- br in header 1 ie.
<h1>some title
<br>
</h1>

- empty h1 tags ie.
<h1></h1>

- list tags not closed properly

- empty lists (I actually think these are probably not a problem but not
100% sure)

- images that are not on the server (ie. linked from other sites)

- insane amounts of extraneous tags left over from copy + pasting from
wikipedia, word docs, odt files etc

Those are the ones I remember.

Trouble shooting tips:
* OPTION 1 view the whole manual using the syntax:
[lang].flossmanuals.net/bin/view/[manualname]/_all?skin=basic

in your case:
http://en.flossmanuals.net/bin/view/CiviCRM/_all?skin=basic

then look at the source and see if you can find these things and find
where they are then edit the chapters as necessary.

* OPTION 2 open two indexes in two different browser tabs :
[lang].flossmanuals.net/bin/arrange/[manualname]

ie
http://en.flossmanuals.net/bin/arrange/CiviCRM

DO NOT alter one index - this is your original 'rollback'

Section by section remove chapters from the index in the second tab and
save the index. try Objavi. Keep going until objavi works. when it works
you have probably found the section which contains the chapter with the
issue. Go back to the original index , save it. Refresh tab two so it
has the original index also. Go through the section and remove chapters
one by one, and saving and rendering as above until you find the
chapter. Go through the chapter and clean it up...save the original
index - render.

* OPTION 3 publish the manual. go to the published version. download the
PDF. If you see empty index items in the TOC you have found empty h1
(and h2, h3) headings. Fix them...try Objavi...


ok...so...Objavi 2....
This will probably 'just work' except you need to dev the CSS as the
default is not very good. Look at the one james supplied here:
http://blog.booki.cc/

in his post about Objavi and CSS...try that....then tweak as you like...


hope that helps...

adam




On Wed, 2010-09-22 at 19:25 +0100, Michael McAndrew wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> http://en.flossmanuals.net/bin/objavi is producing a 0kb pdf of the
> CiviCRM manual.  Can't remember the reasons why this happens but would
> be great to know how I can fix it is poss as I want to get a manual
> made up pretty soon, i.e. tonight :)
> 
> I have a memory that this might be to do with something like empty div
> tags but fingers crossed that it isn't.
> 
> otherwise, as a last resort - is it possible to download the pdf from
> lulu?  i know we have a fine copy there.  if so, can someone send me
> the lulu password for flossmanuals.
> 
> thanks floss people :)
> Michael
> 
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