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I did a quick-and-dirty run on the HTML in the main RSS feed so you can see if it maybe looks better, keeping in mind that many details of the look can be easily improved by modifying the applied stylesheet. |
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This is the html2ps I meant -- http://user.it.uu.se/~jan/html2ps.html . The ps2pdf script is a part of ghostscript (which I think you may need for html2ps anyway). |
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Back to content and format of the newsletter for a moment. (I only reviewed the Sony version on the Reader.)
While the titles at the top are helpful, please brand each page (perhaps centered at the bottom) with the name "MobileRead Networks" and the date of publication. The size of the base (text) font is fine even at the "S" setting. Maybe provide the headings in san serif and the body (text) in serif for more contrast between them. I agree with the comment to remove the "^^" as it is not needed. This is far more readable and useful than the trial version posted under the Sony Guidelines thread. |
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Using both html2ps and ps2pdf should be a quick way to generate something yes... I'm working on something where I'm totally in control of the .tex file though, I'd rather have limited support first for HTML/CSS but have much more complex control over how everything looks like.
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llasram, I used html2ps over the weekend and I think it's the best solution for the newsletter. Compared to LaTeX, it's much easier to use with the information we pull from the database. Compared to htmldoc, it has more options (with limited CSS) to tweak the output. Alas, it's also considerably slower since it's in Perl and not in C code.
Anyways, I have a problem with the page size. No matter what I enter in my config -- either under @html2ps in the paper block, or under @page -- the page size of the output is 215,9x279.4mm. Could you show me the settings you used for rss-feed.pdf? |
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OK, I think I got it... I have to pass the page size also to ghostscript (ps2pdf). Still, if you could share your config file, I'd be very happy
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I've just tried the first pdf, it's great! I won't have to spend my time on line to study everything!
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Thanks yvan. It's a starter, but there is still room for improvement, and I received a lot of useful commentary already how to make it better.
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Hm, unfortunately html2ps has a serious bug that doesn't allow me to use headers/footers. It seems you need to add a relatively big margin, like 2cm, for headers and footers to appear (no matter the font size) - which is obviously too much screen asset to give away for our purposes.
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Hey Alex! I spent a good half hour reading that newsletter yesterday evening. You gave me a bypass around the 'No computer after 1900h' rule we have.
Funny thing I should say this with the old eyes I have, but you should reduce the font size a bit and put less empty lines. Having the site as a newsletter like this gave me the time and patience to thoroughly read and understand the techno stuff I usually skip. |
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yvan, I am glad you like it! We will definitely have our newsletter soon - I am just evaluating the various suitable options to convert to PDF. Seems like there is no perfect solution ;(
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OK, I am back to htmldoc (and possibly LaTeX in the future - when I have more free time to invest). With html2ps I found the following limitations:
Here I have a new version of the newsletter for you to try. This time I added more text formatting and also a few small tweaks as suggested by others in this thread. Inline images *are* included, and I am not sure if we should do this in the final version of the newsletter, as PDF files with images tend to become quite big. Here are the download links: Sony Reader version: https://www.mobileread.com/newsletter-sony.pdf iLiad version: https://www.mobileread.com/newsletter-iliad.pdf Comments are appreciated! |
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