Topic on Talk:Reading/Web/PDF Functionality/Flow

Johan (WMF) (talkcontribs)

There's a new update for PDF-to-books now. Most importantly, it shows a sample of how it currently looks, which is much like what the final version will be. Take a look, and comment if you have feedback.

X-Savitar (talkcontribs)

Wow, I just had a quick look at the sample PDF and it looks clean. If this is how the final version will look like, then I think it's of very good quality. Thanks for the update @Johan (WMF).

Gpc62 (talkcontribs)

It looks like none of the articles in the sample book involve equations, either in-line or displayed.

Gpc62 (talkcontribs)

Using download-as-pdf of Maxwell's Equations the result still has equations in a very heavy style that looks as if everything is boldface. Even characters like numbers, epsilon and mu appear to be bold in many places, but not everywhere. The characters that are supposed to be bold (eg, capital B, D, E, H as vectors) are sort of doubly bold.

There are also major kerning problems in the text in general. On page 2, I see the word "by" rendered with the two characters completely overlapping.

Johan (WMF) (talkcontribs)

I'll make sure PediaPress are aware of the discussion here – but please be aware that the single-page PDF (currently working) and PDF-to-books (what we're working on here) won't be rendered using the same technology.

Gpc62 (talkcontribs)

OK. I checked the download-as-pdf version of Maxwell's eqns since it's not possible to check the PDF-to-books version.

Gpc62 (talkcontribs)
Steelpillow (talkcontribs)

I have replied in a separate thread, because it is so long and pedantic.

Johan (WMF) (talkcontribs)

On the topic of equations: it's still suboptimal because it uses MathML instead of LaTeX, but this will be fixed.

Simon Villeneuve (talkcontribs)

Do it is possible to have an updated roadmap on the page ?

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