TL;DR:
Wsexport now outputs PDF at
https://tools.wmflabs.org/wsexport/tool/book.php + we need you
to test ePub 3 output as it will be used by default in a few weeks.
Long version:
Hello everyone,
Marc-Andre Peltier and I have added to wsexport the capacity to export PDF, MOBI, TXT and
RTF during the Lyon hackathon. This new feature uses Calibre ebook converter system [1].
We created also a new instance of wsexport on Wikimedia Tool Labs:
https://tools.wmflabs.org/wsexport/tool/book.php to test these new formats.
We plan to do two big changes in the next few weeks:
1. Remove
wsexport.wmflabs.org and redirect it to
tools.wmflabs.org/wsexport . It
shouldn't disrupt anything as we will take care of keeping URLs valid.
2. Move the default format from ePub 2 to ePub 3. ePub 3, between other things, allows to
use HTML 5 and, so, to add new nice features to eBooks. As ePub 3 should be
retrocompatible with ePub 2 this change should not disallow old eReaders to read the
ePubs. But, in order to ensure that this statement is true, could you all try to read
ePubs 3 created by wsexport on your old reading devices and report bugs that may remain?
Cheers,
Thomas
[1]
http://manual.calibre-ebook.com/conversion.html