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

Thu Sep 23 07:40:11 PDT 2010

Hi James,

Thanks for the tips.  We did a fair amount of cleaning up of PRE for this
reason a while ago but it looks like the PDF - which is now in the process
of being printed :) - did suffer from a little bit of text cut off on the
ends.  It's not a biggie though as it's only in a few of the technical
chapters at the very end.

Is solving this as simple as defining a new CSS that allows PRE to wrap?

Happy to look at improvements to your CSS once I have a book in my hands - I
can send you a physical copy as well if that would be useful for you to see
what your CSS looks like on someone elses content in the flesh?

Michael

On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 3:30 PM, James Simmons <nicestep at gmail.com> wrote:

> Michael,
>
> I don't know if the CiviCRM manual has formatted text, but if it does
> and your are using the stylesheet I made be sure and check the <PRE>
> tag stuff in the generated PDF before submitting it to a printer.
> There is a good chance that some text will get truncated.  Formatted
> text does not wrap; it just gets chopped off.
>
> You might want to look at page breaks too.  My post shows one way to
> improve them.
>
> James Simmons
>
>
> On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 7:15 AM, Michael McAndrew
> <michaelmcandrew at thirdsectordesign.org> wrote:
> > 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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