Publishing
Note
See also: 100-page-book
Lulu specific notes
Fixing Embedded fonts error
When you are trying to publish a book via Lulu.com, you might encounter
"embed fonts" error. This is the workaround I found on the web that uses
ghostscript:
gs -dSAFER -dNOPLATFONTS -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=pdfwrite \
-sPAPERSIZE=letter -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 -dPDFSETTINGS=/printer \
-dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 -dMaxSubsetPct=100 -dSubsetFonts=true \
-dEmbedAllFonts=true -sOutputFile=new.pdf -f old.pdf
See also: Embed fonts in a PDF with pdflatex which shows a simpler technique:
pdf2ps doc.pdf
ps2pdf13 -dPDFSETTINGS=/prepress doc.ps doc2.pdf
However, the resulting PDF looks fuzzier than the original one.
Resizing all pages of a PDF to a common size
This can happen if you are combining multiple PDF documents (say using
pdftk) to make a compendium. You can resize all the pages to be of
the same size using ghostscript --
source:
gs -o /path/to/resized.pdf
-sDEVICE=pdfwrite
-dPDFFitPage
-r300x300
-g2550x3300
/path/to/original.pdf
Cropping PDFs
Self publishing tools
- lise-henry/crowbook: Converts books written in Markdown to HTML, LaTeX/PDF and EPUB
- softcover/softcover: CLI for book generation, building, and publishing to softcover.io
Manning
Libraries
- PrinceXML
- Speedata Publisher to generate reports. XML->PDF. Uses LuaTeX. AGPL/Commercial license.
- PreTeXt <q>An authoring and publishing system for authors of textbooks, research articles, and monographs, especially in STEM disciplines. The best of DocBook, LaTeX, and HTML. Outputs: print, PDF, web, EPUB, Jupyter Notebooks, braille,</q>. github; XML based syntax.
Web publishing
- HTMLBook "an HTML replacement to Docbook"
- Bookiza Abelone "The book reification framework for the web." See example.
- ONCE — Writebook
- Printing the web, part 2: HTML and CSS for printing books using modern print CSS and PrinceXML.
Zines
Book covers
See also: pandoc
See also: 100-page-book
Lulu specific notes
Fixing Embedded fonts error
When you are trying to publish a book via Lulu.com, you might encounter
"embed fonts" error. This is the workaround I found on the web that usesghostscript:
gs -dSAFER -dNOPLATFONTS -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=pdfwrite \
-sPAPERSIZE=letter -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 -dPDFSETTINGS=/printer \
-dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 -dMaxSubsetPct=100 -dSubsetFonts=true \
-dEmbedAllFonts=true -sOutputFile=new.pdf -f old.pdf
See also: Embed fonts in a PDF with pdflatex which shows a simpler technique:
pdf2ps doc.pdf
ps2pdf13 -dPDFSETTINGS=/prepress doc.ps doc2.pdf
However, the resulting PDF looks fuzzier than the original one.
Resizing all pages of a PDF to a common size
This can happen if you are combining multiple PDF documents (say usingpdftk) to make a compendium. You can resize all the pages to be of
the same size using ghostscript --
source:
gs -o /path/to/resized.pdf
-sDEVICE=pdfwrite
-dPDFFitPage
-r300x300
-g2550x3300
/path/to/original.pdf
Cropping PDFs
Self publishing tools
- lise-henry/crowbook: Converts books written in Markdown to HTML, LaTeX/PDF and EPUB
- softcover/softcover: CLI for book generation, building, and publishing to softcover.io
Manning
Libraries
- PrinceXML
- Speedata Publisher to generate reports. XML->PDF. Uses LuaTeX. AGPL/Commercial license.
- PreTeXt <q>An authoring and publishing system for authors of textbooks, research articles, and monographs, especially in STEM disciplines. The best of DocBook, LaTeX, and HTML. Outputs: print, PDF, web, EPUB, Jupyter Notebooks, braille,</q>. github; XML based syntax.
Web publishing
- HTMLBook "an HTML replacement to Docbook"
- Bookiza Abelone "The book reification framework for the web." See example.
- ONCE — Writebook
- Printing the web, part 2: HTML and CSS for printing books using modern print CSS and PrinceXML.
Zines
Book covers
See also: pandoc
