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

[James Simmons]

Gonzalo,

I fixed the Table Of Contents myself.  There are still many other
problems, like missing pictures and subheadings in the wrong place,
etc.  Basically we have to get the picturs inside the Booki project,
and we have to strip out any extra style information (which means all
of it.  For this book there should be no style info in the pages
themselves).  I saw one chapter, don't remember which, where every
single word was in its own <span>.  Using MS Word for HTML is deadly.
I would only remove this kind of thing if it clearly hurts the PDF,
but there are cases where it does.

Speaking of the Table Of Contents, when you create the PDF it prompts
you for what that should be called, defaulting to the English word.
I'll need to know the Spanish equivalent.  I'm going to be generating
the PDF with a custom style sheet that makes the print readable.  You
can use the default for proofing.

James Simmons


On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 9:02 PM, Gonzalo Odiard <gonzalo at laptop.org> wrote:
> Hi James,
> I don't know if anybody else resolved the problem,
> but now the index looks ok
>
> http://objavi.flossmanuals.net/books/comohacerunaactividadsugar-en-2011.06.19-03.52.21.pdf
>
> Gonzalo
>
> On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 9:30 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
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