[daisy] pdf generation

[Bruno Dumon]

Hi,

On Tue, 2007-09-11 at 08:32 +0200, Jan Hoskens wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I just noticed that the 'Live Sites' page on the wiki generates a pdf in
> which images are overlapping the text. Just try it yourself:
> 
> http://cocoondev.org/wiki/286-cd.html
> 
> Besides this, our own daisy installation (2.0.1) has pdf problems as
> well. We have a page containing lots of links. These links end up in the
> footer and are overlapping the page text. I've looked for a page on
> cocoondev which has the same problem, but haven't yet found one which
> contains enough text and links to show this behaviour.
> 
> Our users report that the document did render fine in a previous version
> of daisy, but I can't verify this right now. Could it be that there was
> a change in the xsl:fo generation? (possibly an upgrade of fop?)
> 

Daisy versions up to 2.0.1 use FOP 0.20.5, the footnote problem has
always been there.

Starting with Daisy 2.1, FOP 0.94 is used. In this FOP version,
footnotes should not overlap with the page text anymore, though a new
problem is that footnotes used in tables or lists don't appear.

If you don't like the links-in-footnotes behaviour, it is easy to
disable or change this in the document-to-xslfo.html (to do this
properly, see the docs on skinning: make a custom copy of this file in
the wikidata directory).

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