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

[Michael McAndrew]

Hi all,

Thanks for tips - Objavi II 'Just Worked', which made me v. happy!

You guys have done a great job with this tool - the interface was v. simple
to understand, the workflow, process was painless and it looks cool too :) -
it was fun - congrats to all.

I tried both CSSes and went with James with no tweaks.  I did wonder if it
would be better with an increased font size and wider column, but not having
seen it in print I can't say.  Anyway - am getting 50 copies like this and
can then feed back.

Michael


On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 9:06 AM, adam <adam at xs4all.nl> wrote:

> 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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