Produce books with Plone and export them in a high quality PDF.
Project description
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
2.2.9.1 (2013-10-24)
- Backport of following fix because we can’t ugrade to next version:
Index page: use navigation type configuration for excluding types, so that it
also works with comments.
2.2.9 (2012-10-16)
Reader view: support min-height on #content element. [jone]
Fix navigation portlet when it is moved. [tschanzt]
Make documentstab work with document_date. [tschanzt]
2.2.8 (2012-08-20)
Disable filter box on “Index” tab. [jone]
Do not search block types but their parents (chapter), as this concept was changed in simplelayout. [jone]
Fix positioning floating images by inserting a zero-hspace. [jone]
Update German view translation. [jone]
Disable setting default page for Book and Chapter. Those types are not normal folders and setting the default page is therefore not common. [jone]
2.2.7 (2012-07-17)
Fix floating problem with full width images in paragraph blocks. [jone]
Chapter: define schema explicitly. [jone]
Fix issue with LinguaPlone: Imports from Products.LinguaPlone instead of Products.Archetypes. [treinhard]
2.2.6 (2012-06-26)
Support for LinguaPlone. [treinhard]
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.
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