ftw.book 2.2.5

Produce books with Plone and export them in a high quality PDF.

ftw.book

This package provides content types for creating a book which can be exported as PDF.

Features

• Provides a content type “Book” which defines the root of a book.

• Provides a content type “Chapter” for creating the structure of a book. Chapters are nestable.

• Content is added to chapters using simplelayout blocks.

• Provides an action for exporting the book or a single chapter recursively as PDF.

• Provides LaTeX representations for the default simplelayout blocks.

• Adds fields for injecting LaTeX code to every content type within a book using schemaextender.

• Provides a “Reader” view which displays the book on one page for a enjoyable reading experience.

• Provides simplalayout “Table” block for enter tabular data using a datagrid widget which generates HTML table representation which also convertable into a PDF.

Usage

• Add ftw.book to your buildout configuration:

[instance]
eggs +=
    ftw.book

• Install the generic import profile.

• Install a LaTeX distribution, see ftw.pdfgenerator install instructions.

Links

• Main github project repository: https://github.com/4teamwork/ftw.book

• Issue tracker: https://github.com/4teamwork/ftw.book/issues

• Package on pypi: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/ftw.book

• Continuous integration: https://jenkins.4teamwork.ch/search?q=ftw.book

Copyright

This package is copyright by 4teamwork.

ftw.book is licensed under GNU General Public License, version 2.

Changelog

2.2.5 (2012-06-13)

• Higlighting: include soulutf8 LaTeX package and move conversion to seperate subconverter for including the packages lazily. [jone]

• Table: fix enitity handling in table generator. [jone]

2.2.4 (2012-06-11)

• Paragraph: validate table widths and show a viewlet to editors with a hint that the table widths should be defined. [jone]

• LaTeX: use soulutf8 instead of soul package for allowing utf8 characters in highlighted text. [jone]

• Within books HTML <h?> tags should not be converted to LaTeX headers. We use chapters and block titles for building the book structure. This fixes inconsistency between plone view heading numbering and LaTeX’s numbering. [jone]

2.2.3 (2012-05-16)

• Fix latexinjection extender - use IWithinBookLayer. [mathias.leimgruber]

• Fix LaTeX markup of Remark. [jone]

• Refactor image handling. [jone]

2.2.1 (2012-05-09)

• Table LaTeX view: fix footnote LaTeX conversion. [jone]

• Optimized Table-layout so that it is more like plone default. [eschmutz]

• Fix condition in paragraph latex view (blob storage). [mathias.leimgruber]

2.2 (2012-04-30)

• Switch Book metadata fields to AttributeStorage. [jone]

• Add new content-type: Table [eschmutz]

• Add new content-type: Remark. Used to add comments in a chapter of a book [eschmutz]

2.1 (2012-04-02)

• Added a alternative default book view based on ftw.tabbedview [mathias.leimgruber]

• Added ftw.tabbedview based overview. [mathias.leimgruber]

2.0.2 (2012-03-22)

• Fix view_methods of Book FTI (should include default view). [jone]

2.0.1 (2012-03-22)

• Fix heading counters: count objects where the user has no View permission. [jone]

• Reset heading counters for getting consistent heading numbers on partical exports. #6 [jone]

• Use term “Version” instead of “Release” in default book layout. #5 [jone]

• Added simplelayout-block-wrapper to chapter view (Simplelayout issue). [mathias.leimgruber]

2.0 (2012-03-05)

• Add HTML Block content type. [jone]

• Add upgrade step for setting default book layout. [jone]

• Default layout: add logo and logo-width fields. [jone]

• Look for css class ‘bookReaderLastElement’ when trying to determine the last element for reader height calculation. [buchi]

• Set Content-Type header for JSON responses to ‘application/json’ to prevent theming. [buchi]

• Compatibility with new simplelayout version on plone4 branch. [jone]

• Implement a seperate class for chapters. There is a migration step for migrating existing chapters. [jone]

• Fix edit icon for chapters. [jone]

• Remove pagestyle field: pagestyle is not support by the new layout. [jone]

• Use schema extender for enabling default-layout specific fields. Move default layout to seperate module. [jone]

• Implement support for multiple layouts, selectable in the book. [jone]

• Re-add converting visualHighlight to new ftw.pdfgenerator implementation. [jone]

• Add “PDF” action to folder_contents on book and chapter types. This allows do export only the selected chapters. [jone]

• Use export_pdf view instead of as_pdf since it was changed in ftw.pdfgenerator. [jone]

• Image block PDF representation: use description as caption and use no caption if description is empty. [jone]

• Add fields release, author and author address to book, used in latex layout. [jone]

• Add missing fncychap.sty to default layout (required by sphinx layout). [jone]

• Fix a bug which made the pdflatex process hanging when an image had no valid layout defined. Defaulting to 100% width fixes the issue. [jone]

• Replace plonegov.pdflatex with ftw.pdfgenerator. [jone]

• Fix schema extender problem with schema extender. [jone]

• Added Bookview which displays the table of contents of the book [ttschanz]

• Fix bug where PDF rendering failed: Remove uncessary / wrong acqusition wrapper check. [jone]

• Use TOC-prefixes for displaying headers within a book. Display headers within a book in the right size. [eschmutz]

• Add a IWithinBookLayer request layer. [jone]

• Implemented a navigation portlet on book level, which does not display parents for narrowing into the context. An additional back-to-parent portlet provides a link to the parent. [ttschanz]

1.1.1 (2011-10-19)

• Readerview: fix strange brain comparing problem by building the toc numbers in a different way. [jone]

1.1 (2011-10-18)

• Implemented new reader view displaying the whole book with AJAX lazy loading. [jone]

• Code cleanup and tests improvement. [jone]

• Added LaTeX code injection support for admin users. Allows to inject LaTeX code before and after every object within a book. [jbaumann]

• Added custom html2latex rule for rendering <span class=”vislualHighlight”> [jbaumann]

1.0 (2010-11-02)

• Added Icons / fix setup.py / egg structure. [mathias.leimgruber]

• LaTeX options (toc, loi, lot, …), links and images in latex. [jinfanger]

0.1 (2009-09-04)

• Implemented support for title page, table of contents and other listings. [jinfanger]

• Added action for rendering a book or a chapter as PDF. [jinfanger]

• Implementation of basic features.