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Subject: Re: [Textbook-l] [Offline-l] FYI - WMF pausing and deprecating some functionality
Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2017 12:28:13 +0100
From: Dirk Hünniger <dirk.hunniger@googlemail.com>
To: Wikimedia textbook discussion <textbook-l@lists.wikimedia.org>, Federico Leva (Nemo) <nemowiki@gmail.com>, Using Wikimedia projects and MediaWiki offline <offline-l@lists.wikimedia.org>, Jon Katz <jkatz@wikimedia.org>
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Hi,

my tool is also a solution to the problem.

https://de.wikibooks.org/wiki/Benutzer:Dirk_Huenniger/wb2pdf

Yours Dirk


On 06.12.2017 11:52, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote:
> Jon Katz, 22/11/2017 03:29:
>> The issue you raise, is a known issue being tracked and worked on here
>
> The issue I raise is that you should not make a change that makes life 
> worse for all users. The feature is currently useless in 100 % of 
> cases, so you should have rolled back immediately to the previous 
> system as long as it works even in 0,1 % of the cases.
>
> For now, I'm telling people to use the PediaPress book builder and 
> ignore the PDFs produced by Wikimedia Foundation. This is not 
> sustainable.
>
> Federico
>
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