[FM Discuss] Strange problems with PDF of Spanish version of MYOSA

[James Simmons]

Ana,

I figured out some of the issues and attempted to make corrections.
It looks like some of the chapters had extra tags in them.  For
instance, chapter 4 had an extra <h1></h1> in front of the chapter
title, so the chapter title came up as an empty string.  Other
chapters had unnecessary <style> tags in them.  I would guess that
these chapters might have been edited in Word and then pasted into
Booki.  I've done that myself and it has caused similar problems.

For the missing screenshots, I would guess that the URLs of the
screenshots do not point to images contained within the project, but
in fact point to images in the English version.  This *looks* OK when
you're editing but does not work for publishing.

I would recommend creating a PDF with the default style sheet and
going through it looking for obvious problems like screwed up chapter
headings, missing pictures, etc.  Look at the raw HTML view for
chapters with problems and that should give you a pretty good idea of
how to fix them.  It should not take that long, and I'll help if you
get stuck.

Thanks,

James Simmons


On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 7:30 PM, James Simmons <nicestep at gmail.com> wrote:
> The Spanish version of "Make Your Own Sugar Activities!" is ready to
> publish, but when I attempt to make a PDF to submit to the Internet
> Archive I'm getting a weird problem with the TOC.  It looks like this:
>
> Table of Contents
> Actividades Sugar
>  1 Introducción
>             2
>  2 ¿Qué es Sugar?
>             4
>  3 ¿Qué es una Actividad Sugar?
>             7
>  4
>             8
> Programación
>  5 Instalar el entorno de desarrollo.
>  6 Crear tu primer Actividad Sugar
>  7 Un programa Python autónomo para leer etexts
>  8 Heredar una Actividad desde sugar.activity.Activity
>  9 Empaquetar tu Actividad
>  10 Agregar detalles
>    h1 { margin-top: 0.78cm; margin-bottom: 0.11cm; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);
>    background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent; line-height: 100%; text-
>    align: left; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; }h1.western { font-family:
>  11
>    "Liberation Sans"; font-size: 17pt; }h1.cjk { font-family: "DejaVu
> Sans"; font-
>    size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; }h1.ctl { font-family: "DejaVu Sans"; font-
>    size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; }p { margin-bottom: 0.21cm; }
>  12 Internacionalizarse con Pootle
>  13 Distribuir tu Actividad
>
> Notice that chapter 4 has no title at all, and chapters 10 and 11 seem
> to be displaying style information where the chapter titles should be.
>  I thought this might be an issue with the custom style sheet I was
> using, but it does the exact same thing with the default style sheet.
>
> Here is a link to the generated PDF using the default style sheet:
>
> http://objavi.flossmanuals.net/books/comohacerunaactividadsugar-en-2011.06.17-22.23.48.pdf
>
> This is the link to edit and publish the manual:
>
> http://booki.flossmanuals.net/como-hacer-una-actividad-sugar/edit/
>
> It looks like there are several problems with the PDF.  The section
> contents for ACTIVIDADES SUGAR has no chapters listed in it.  Same
> thing for PROGRAMACIÓN.  On page 22 a heading is overlaid on top of
> the following paragraph.  Similar problem on page 30.  None of the
> chapters in the body of the document have numbers.  Page 77 is missing
> a screenshot.  Same for page 87 and 91 and 96.  (Maybe the links to
> pictures point to the wrong place.  That might be a problem with the
> translators using Booki incorrectly).
>
> I hope we can straighten this out quickly.  Ana and her team have done
> what looks to be a terrific job.  They even put in footnotes
> explaining my lousy jokes.  You can't ask for that kind of dedication.
>
> Thanks,
>
> James Simmons
>