[daisy] pdf generation

[Jan Hoskens]

On Tue, 2007-09-11 at 10:15 +0200, Bruno Dumon wrote:
> 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.

Ah, I see, it only turns up occasionally when a document has too much
links. Our users probably noticed it with our latest installation of
daisy hence the confusion that something might have been changed in the
pdf generation.

> 
> 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).

I'll make this suggestion to our users, thanks!

Kind Regards,
Jan


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