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  • Reply to: Apostrophe changed to question mark in cookbook   15 years 8 weeks ago Apostrophe/Quotation Marks

    I just noticed that the same thing happens with quotation marks. I'm using a MAC, but it's not configured for any special language or characters.
    Thanks

  • Reply to: Adding photos   15 years 8 weeks ago re: Adding photos

    Hi Antonia,

    Great question.  We have some limitations with the current recipe book at the moment, but we're right in the middle of a significant upgrade that I think will be what you're looking for.  Bottom line, we'll help you get your recipe book figured out.

    Currently, the system lets you add photos as you know to the recipe (one per recipe) and to the recipe book (book photo). The recipe book photo is placed on the inside title page, but formating and placement of the photo needs adjustment. You can also attach image files to the recipes and the recipe book itself and and insert these into the body text fields but you need to know how to do a little bit of HTML (this is currently how you would attach more than one photo to a recipe). This is done with a combination of the "file upload" at the bottom of the form and some HTML to place the image file in the body text.

    And we don't currently have front and back cover pages.

    However the upgrade to the system that I mentioned will include:

    * Full GUI editor so you can easily insert and upload images into any text box where you can currently enter text, plus lot's of other great formating just like a word processor.

    * Reorganization of the recipe book that will include front cover, back cover, title page, chapters, and chapters can contain pages and recipes. And you'll have the ability to insert and upload mulitple images on any of these recipe book components wherever there are text entry boxes with the GUI editor. So I think this is what you're looking for. It will be very flexible.

    We're not quite ready with this new release, so let me ask you what your time frame is to publish your recipe book? If you're in a big hurry, we can turn some of these new features on for you, but you would need to work with us while we finish and test the upgrade. We'd actually like to have a few more folks to help us test, so let me know if you're interested?

    Otherwise, if you want to wait for the release to come out (we're shooting for the first of the year), all of the recipes that you're putting in right now will be fine and carry forward.

    Let me know whether you'd like to work with the new features while we finish the release (and help us test), or whether you'd prefer to wait for the release to come out, most likely in January?

    Bob
    familyrecipecentral

  • Reply to: Apostrophe changed to question mark in cookbook   15 years 8 weeks ago re:Apostrophe changed to question mark in cookbook

    Hi Antonia,

    Took a look in the database and what we found is that you may have keyed in something different than an apostrophe. It looks like a forward leaning tick mark (not actually found on most keyboards, so kind of strange), not a vertical up and down quote mark or apostrophe.

    Don't know if this is true in your case, but sometimes with foreign language (non US English) computer systems, keyboards or character sets, it's possible to enter these alternate characters from the keyboard. They can display fine in the browser view, but we don't have a proper character translation when we generate the PDF, so a '?' appears in the PDF.

    Try going back into the recipe(s) in question and replacing the tick mark with a quote mark/apostrophe (on a standard keyboard that should be the single/double quote key, usually next to the enter key) and see if that fixes the problem.

    Thanks (and let us know if that helps),

    Bob
    familyrecipecentral

  • Reply to: PDF 5x8 recipe cards   15 years 8 weeks ago re: Full page recipe book

    Now fixed in the recipe book as well. Thanks for the heads up!

    familyrecipecentral

  • Reply to: PDF 5x8 recipe cards   15 years 8 weeks ago Full page recipe book

    I'm having the same problem with printing a full page recipe book. The directions run over into the photo.
    Thanks.