Posts by lofty

lofty · General

OK Rod,

I'll give it a go when I get home, if the wine doesn't kick in first!

lofty · General

I knew you were going to ask that Rod, but no this is on a test server at home.

When I inspect the element in Chrome or Firefox tools the i element just doesn't show. Very frustrating.

That's why I'm sure it's something I'm missing. Everything else works fine. All my custom PHP and CSS is OK, just trying some new bits for a bit of fun!

Guess I'll have to wait to put it online when I've sorted it all out, then I can ask again )

Meanwhile having fun.....

lofty · General

Via Publisher, in the Block Copy.

But also by editing the xml file directly.

lofty · General

Hi Matt,

Sorry my bad! I mean text that is formatted as h1, h2 etc.

so I enter ## Home

or ## Home

lofty · General

Hi Guys,

OK I give up! why can't I get my Font Awesome icons to show up?

I have been playing with this for a couple of days now and can't find out how to get the blighters to show.

I place (eg) in the Header text either before or after as per examples.

What am I missing, please I know it must be something dumm!

--Lofty

lofty · General

Hi Guys,

At the risk of opening up a can of worms, I just thought I'd wade in with some info on publishing PDF Books within Pages/Galleries/Stage etc.

I work for a commercial printer and we have, from time to time, been asked to publish PDF brochures etc. on web sites for our customers. We use two products which have a free version and a subscribed product. The free versions work well if you don't mind putting up with some limitations.

The first product is a standalone, open source converter for PDF to Flash called Flexpaper http://flexpaper.devaldi.com. This produces a swf file, which you should (although I haven't tried it yet) be able to use in TTG CE2 Stage (apologies Matt if I have this wrong!). Also you would need the Per Domain version to get the 'zine' page turning version.

The service we use the most though is http://www.issuu.com. With issuu you register for their free service, upload your PDF, Word document etc. then you can get an embed code which you can place any where in the block content of your page. This then creates a link to your document on issuu. I have tried this in TTG CE2 Pages and it does work by placing the embed code in the php for the relevant page. The upside to this is that you are not hosting the PDF yourself. However, the downside is that the free version has the issuu branding and some annoying content at the side when you view the document in full screen. Needless to say the Pro version does not have this, so possibly a better solution for you chaps wishing to sell your Books.

There may well be other solutions like this out there, and this won't be for everyone, but I know they work.

--Lofty

lofty · General

Just wanted to share something.

I have been having problems with deleting old folders on my hosting service.

When I updated to publisher I had a lot of nested folders from the previous setup that would not delete no matter what I did. I changed permissions to 777, the login username and it was all very frustrating. I use FileZilla on a Mac at home but also had no joy with FileZilla on PC from a different location.

I then happened to be using an old PowerPC Mac which had an FTP client called CyberDuck installed and when I looked at the old folders I was able to see a hidden file called .DSstore in every directory that I could not delete. Using CyberDuck I was then able to delete this file and all the old folders.

Now I'm not advocating using CyberDuck, but if you can't delete a folder and you use a Mac, then you might have a hidden file in your directory. This is not an issue with PC's as .DSstore is a way of keeping track of things, such as which folders you have opened etc. in OSX. And, if you can't see it, I believe you can't delete it.

Hope this will be useful for someone.

--Lofty

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#151 Re: General » Font Awesome » 2013-03-09 02:21:05

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#155 General » Font Awesome » 2013-03-09 00:02:49

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#157 General » Hidden Files and FTP Clients » 2013-01-22 16:01:00

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