[Wikimediaindia-l] PDF rendering of Indian language wiki pages

[Hari Prasad Nadig]

Santosh,

Excellent effort. Kudos to you and the SMC team.

I feel that we should setup a wiki page or similar close to the project page
for users to put up feedback.

Note: Checked with Kannada. The preview verision works fine for most part,
which is good. There are some trivial bugs.

On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 10:36 PM, Santhosh Thottingal <
santhosh.thottingal at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> We are working on a Complex script PDF rendering library named
> PyPDFLib(https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/pypdflib/). One of its
> test case (or use case) is to render a wiki page in complex script(any
> Indian Language) to PDF. Currently PDF export feature is not
> available(not working) for Indian language wiki projects because of
> technical incapability of Python Reportlab library.
>
> Just wanted to give an early preview of this software library through
> an online interface : http://silpa.smc.org.in/Render
> You can try with a Wikipedia page in your language and verify the generated
> PDF.
> You can also access this using this URL
> http://silpa.smc.org.in/Render?wiki=http://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/இலங்கை
> (replace that wiki URL with other page addresses too - any Ianguage -
> not limited to Indian languages)
>
> There are lot of items not implemented, but your feedback is requested
> on the current version.
> The library uses Pango for text rendering and Cairo for graphics and
> PDF features.
>
> ps: Don't get surprised if you get a 500 Error page for the random
> page you are trying. Just try another wiki page ;)
>
> Thanks
> Santhosh Thottingal
> http://thottingal.in
>
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