Aleksandar Erkalović

how to publich with booktype 2.0?
Hi Jutta! What you could do at the moment is disable CSRF support. Go to your settings file : /settings/base.py file and comment this: MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES = ( 'django.middleware.common.CommonMiddleware', …

Comment by Aleksandar Erkalović January 2014 permalink
Issue with uploading profile image, cover
Booktype does not come with special version of PIL. Booktype creates isolated virtual environment for this project and installs packages locally (PIL included). If required libraries are not installed on the system any kind of PIL will not have supp…

Comment by Aleksandar Erkalović December 2013 permalink
Django OAuth
Hi Tomi! It should not be any kind of disaster. General idea is to provide basic package which you should be able to extend according to your own needs - intergate with oath, integrate with LDAP and etc. Using standard Django apps for this should be…

Comment by Aleksandar Erkalović December 2013 permalink
Moving revision history with books
Hi Tomi! You are correct, there is no way to import revision history into another Booktype instance at the moment. The only way how this would be possible is to make up new format where we would export all needed information (user info, book info, c…

Comment by Aleksandar Erkalović December 2013 permalink
Import bootype database from sqlite into postgres
Hi Joel, yes, the "best" option would be to export books and import them again on PostgreSQL installation. You can use for this our internal format. More info here - https://wiki.sourcefabric.org/display/Booktype/Booktype+management+comman…

Comment by Aleksandar Erkalović December 2013 permalink
Error installing Booktype at syncdb
Hi Mikael! This package you installed, django_503, is it by any change this https://pypi.python.org/pypi/django-503? because it seems to be Django app and not Django itself. If it is, just install older version of Django and try again. It should be …

Comment by Aleksandar Erkalović December 2013 permalink
Best OS
Hi! Can you please tell me: - are you using PostgreSQL or Sqlite as database? - are you using Apache or builtin python server for hosting? How can you notice that the system is slow? Combination of Apache+Sqlite can lead to some Sqlite locks which r…

Comment by Aleksandar Erkalović December 2013 permalink
Error installing Booktype at syncdb
This check only does "import django". It fails so I would say installed Django is for some reasons not in the path. Aco

Comment by Aleksandar Erkalović December 2013 permalink
Error installing Booktype at syncdb
Newer version of Django could be a problem. Booktype 1.6.1 works with Django 1.3/1.4. Dependencies and specific version are listed in requirements/_base.txt file. If you need Django 1.6 for other reasons you should install Booktype inside of virtual…

Comment by Aleksandar Erkalović December 2013 permalink
Error installing Booktype at syncdb
Hi Mikael, in your case settings is in /var/www/mybooktype/settings.py file. Could you please post what version of Django and Python you are using: python -c "import django; print django.get_version()" python --version Thanks! Aco

Comment by Aleksandar Erkalović December 2013 permalink
Error installing Booktype at syncdb
Hi Mikael, have you loaded booki.env file which has define paths and DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE? Aco

Comment by Aleksandar Erkalović December 2013 permalink
How to add new users to Booktype?
Hi Arnold, you can add new users if you are superuser or admin on your Booktype instance. In that case you will see "Control Center" in the top right corner. Click on it and select "People" option in the menu. There is "Add …

Comment by Aleksandar Erkalović December 2013 permalink
new be issue... cant install booktype...
I helped Nicolaas but I am posting here info for other to see. I think he used script https://github.com/aerkalov/booktype-scrolls/blob/master/scripts/install/booktype_install.py to install Booktype. It created virtualenv and installed all needed pa…

Comment by Aleksandar Erkalović November 2013 permalink
Does anyone else create EPUBs?
Hi Glen! Booktype 1.6.1 (latest stable) has older version of EPUB engine which at the end uses Calibre (http://calibre-ebook.com/) to produce final version of epub. Issues you have mentioned are most likely result of that last step. If you have it i…

Comment by Aleksandar Erkalović November 2013 permalink
Does Booktype Support XML
Hi Brittany, sorry for not answering before but Google decided to hide forum notifications from me. If you want to insert xml as a content or content which is inside of xml you will have to do it manually. There is no automatic way how to do it. If…

Comment by Aleksandar Erkalović November 2013 permalink
how do I enable firefox spellcheck in booktype 1.5.3?
Hi! I think it is matter of TinyMCE configuration. By default it is disabled (gecko_spellcheck I think). The other way is spellcheck plugin for TinyMCE (http://www.tinymce.com/wiki.php/Plugin3x:spellchecker). By default it is disabled because it req…

Comment by Aleksandar Erkalović November 2013 permalink
Booktype + MySQL + LDAP in a future?
Hi! Well, Booktype is a Django application and it could use Django authentication backend for LDAP (likedjango-auth-ldap). I haven't tried it myself. It should be just matter of configuration but I am sure one could expect some kind of issues w…

Comment by Aleksandar Erkalović November 2013 permalink
Issue with uploading profile image, cover
Hi! What OS do you have? Looking at the error message I would say you are missing JPEG encoder for your PIL/Pillow installation. You can see here: https://wiki.sourcefabric.org/display/Booktype/How+to+install+it+on+Ubuntu which libraries you would n…

Comment by Aleksandar Erkalović November 2013 permalink
Problem Making "head" and "title" for epub
Hi Chris! Are you using our SaaS service to edit this book or doing it on your own installation? I am asking this because I would like to check your book content and EPUB output. Aco

Comment by Aleksandar Erkalović November 2013 permalink
Mathml support and few other questions?
Hi Alex! You would probably be interested in our latest development version of Booktype which will have some of the features you are talking about. Source for it is available but it will be officially out I guess at the start of next year or so. Cur…

Comment by Aleksandar Erkalović November 2013 permalink
CSS Changes Not Applying
Hi Brittany! Yes, the concept where you have to be expert in CSS and process of styling is more then confusing. We are aware of that and that is why in current development version we have different editing environment with predefined styles and easy…

Comment by Aleksandar Erkalović October 2013 permalink
Importing an Exisiting E-Book
Hi Brittany! 1) You are right. Seems like they have changed format of their EPUB at some point. I tried to import couple of books and they all failed to import. Will check in details what is going on there. Good news is it works on development versi…

Comment by Aleksandar Erkalović October 2013 permalink
How to Tweak CSS for HTML View
Hi! There is a support for this but unfortunately at the moment it means you need shell access to the machine to edit CSS file. Each book can have own CSS file with custom definitions, but at the moment this file can not be edited from Control Cent…

Comment by Aleksandar Erkalović October 2013 permalink
Problems with branch 2.0
Are you using 1.6.1 or 2.0 branch? I don't know details about your hosting solution but I would say it might be file permissions on the "data" directory where the covers are being saved. Check the error log (if you are using Apache) t…

Comment by Aleksandar Erkalović October 2013 permalink
Feature request: invite to group
Hi Adam! Yes, the social aspect of the tool has not fully flourished as it really should :) Yes, invite new user is one of the things which should be more accessible. Invite new users to join you in editing, invite new users to proof-read your book …

Comment by Aleksandar Erkalović October 2013 permalink
Importing an Exisiting E-Book
Hi Brittany! 1. It should work. You should copy+paste url to the publicly accessible EPUB file in the dialog. It will fail (and not report message) in case of error. I am aware that is very annoying and we have in development new version where you c…

Comment by Aleksandar Erkalović October 2013 permalink
HTML links within book
Hi Sean, this "feature" with broken links in the EPUB seems to be something we introduced in the latest release. Will take a look at it closer. Besides this, we are working on a brand new e-book engine (with better editor) which is capable…

Comment by Aleksandar Erkalović October 2013 permalink
Booki translations?
Hi Anders! Well, the only other way (besides upgrading the package) would be for all translators to use the same account :) Not really sure that is the option. Maybe it would be best to contact our support (just write them ticket) team directly with…

Comment by Aleksandar Erkalović October 2013 permalink
Problems with branch 2.0
Hi Marieke, you should use Booktype 1.6.1. Version 2.0 is under heavy development and will not be ready for production for at least 1-2 months. Aco

Comment by Aleksandar Erkalović October 2013 permalink
In chapter pagebreaks? And... static formatting?
Hi! You are correct, page break button is broken at the moment. It just shows text in the editor but does not insert page break in the output. The fix at the moment would be to insert raw html ''. TinyMCE as an editor of choice in this ver…

Comment by Aleksandar Erkalović September 2013 permalink

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