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desny	Posted Friday, January 24, 2014 - Post #33058
Forum Guru Customers GenoPro version: 2.5.3.9 Last Login: Tuesday, August 20, 2019 Posts: 104, Visits: 1,686	Hi, In my attempts to produce a PDF Book ready for printing using the PDF Book Skin, I am stuck with a few problems that I could not solve. I am looking for ideas (but would accept ready made solutions!) on how to make progress, solve or work around these problems. Note: I did not test the Pedigree nor the Timeline functions as I do not currently plan to include them in this version of my reports. Problem 1: Cut pictures This is an identified problem mentioned in other recent threads of the PDF Book Skin. Did anybody find a solution to move the pictures or to avoid the pictures being cut? Problem 2: Superscript does not always work (a minor detail) In some places, the "superscript" referring to the footnotes is not superscripted. In my tests, it only happens with "1", never with subsequent superscripts ("2", "3", etc) and never when several superscripts are "together" ("1 2 3" e.g.) As it happens not more than 3 or 4 times in my reports of 200 to 400 pages, I can live with it. Ron confirmed that it happens during the conversion from HTML to PDF in the "wkhtmltopdf.exe" program and cannot be corrected. Problem 3: Bigger fonts (this is really the major problem). Using the latest skin as is, I am able to produce reports with pages such as the "Cut pictures" page (see "Cut picture" page above), with font sizes much too small for my purpose. It is very difficult to read such pages printed in a landscape A4 format. I would not like to print the reports in a format bigger than A4 just to make the fonts legible. I played around with changing almost every font size parameter in "theme.css" and "style.css". I could sometimes generate a report with bigger legible fonts, but then, the right margin would increase (see "Superscript" page above). Problem 4: Change font color to "black" (probably the printer can do that). I found the parameter "--grayscale" in the "wkhtmltopdf.exe" commands which changes the PDF report font color to gray. How can I change this to all characters being changed to black? I tried "--black" and --blackscale"... Hoping that solutions exist which were just not within the reach of my limited technical qualifications. Thank you for your help. Kind regards. Roland

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Struggling with the PDF Book Skin By desny ( Friday, January 24, 2014 )

I am also suffering trying to produce a PDF report using the latest... By 772556 ( Sunday, February 16, 2014 )

If you want help then more information is required. Exaactly which... By genome ( Monday, February 17, 2014 )

Removing the picture headings is really no problem for me. Is there a... By desny ( Wednesday, February 12, 2014 )

Glad to hear we are getting somewhere near satisfactory on this one.... By genome ( Tuesday, February 11, 2014 )

Hi Ron, The results obtained by generating a report using the... By desny ( Tuesday, February 11, 2014 )

My apologies. I was wrong. I used IE to look at the "individuals.htm"... By desny ( Friday, February 7, 2014 )

Hi, The first tests using "individuals.htm" look encouraging. I was... By desny ( Thursday, February 6, 2014 )

Hi Ron, 1. No errors in the report log. All the pictures of the... By desny ( Thursday, February 6, 2014 )

Now I am a little confused. The split photos issue should be resolved... By genome ( Friday, February 7, 2014 )

Hi Ron, Removing .avoidbreak {page-break-inside: avoid;} (line... By desny ( Wednesday, February 5, 2014 )

Hi Roland. I am very surprised that you have missing pictures when... By genome ( Thursday, February 6, 2014 )

Hi Ron, I generated a new skin starting with Narrative Report Skin... By desny ( Tuesday, February 4, 2014 )

Hi Roland, I haven't received any PM today, so perhaps there is a... By genome ( Tuesday, February 4, 2014 )

My Harry Potter report (see attached) uses smaller fonts, the... By desny ( Sunday, February 2, 2014 )

Hi Ron, Thank you for your help. I tested the new "style.css" file... By desny ( Saturday, February 1, 2014 )

I seem to get different result regarding page width, at least with the... By genome ( Sunday, February 2, 2014 )

Hi Roland, I believe have a partial solution with the attached... By genome ( Saturday, February 1, 2014 )

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