Since the tool is under the early stages of development, I know it is not good to expect a perfect PDF. <br><br>Some general comments are:<ul><li>For Malayalam, eventhough the text rendering is almost perfect, I could find there are some unwnated space inserted with in few words. I assume it is due to the <b>justification alignment</b> used. In general I feel it is better to keep left align text for the paragraphs. May be we can add this an option in PDF generation tool.</li>
<li>By default, it is better to place images inline with the text. May be an additional option to remove images from rendered PDF or place images below the corresponding paragraph can be added in the tool. </li><li>The first page of the PDF need to be have some information. May be the introduction paragraph can be included in the first page. It is not good to keep it blank.</li>
<li>The refernces/href links and so on need to be handled in better way.</li></ul>Since the tool is still under under development I am not going for in depth analysis. <br>\<br>Shiju<br><br><br><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 10:36 PM, Santhosh Thottingal <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:santhosh.thottingal@gmail.com" target="_blank">santhosh.thottingal@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">Hi,<br>
We are working on a Complex script PDF rendering library named<br>
PyPDFLib(<a href="https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/pypdflib/" target="_blank">https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/pypdflib/</a>). One of its<br>
test case (or use case) is to render a wiki page in complex script(any<br>
Indian Language) to PDF. Currently PDF export feature is not<br>
available(not working) for Indian language wiki projects because of<br>
technical incapability of Python Reportlab library.<br>
<br>
Just wanted to give an early preview of this software library through<br>
an online interface : <a href="http://silpa.smc.org.in/Render" target="_blank">http://silpa.smc.org.in/Render</a><br>
You can try with a Wikipedia page in your language and verify the generated PDF.<br>
You can also access this using this URL<br>
<a href="http://silpa.smc.org.in/Render?wiki=http://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/" target="_blank">http://silpa.smc.org.in/Render?wiki=http://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/</a>இலங்கை<br>
(replace that wiki URL with other page addresses too - any Ianguage -<br>
not limited to Indian languages)<br>
<br>
There are lot of items not implemented, but your feedback is requested<br>
on the current version.<br>
The library uses Pango for text rendering and Cairo for graphics and<br>
PDF features.<br>
<br>
ps: Don't get surprised if you get a 500 Error page for the random<br>
page you are trying. Just try another wiki page ;)<br>
<br>
Thanks<br>
Santhosh Thottingal<br>
<a href="http://thottingal.in" target="_blank">http://thottingal.in</a><br>
<br>
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