Export of a given article in a Wiki to PDF is nearly trivial using wget, tidy, html2ps and ps2pdf:
<?php $page = $_GET['page']; $content=`export HOME=/home/apache;links -source \ http://localhost/wikids/index.php/$page | clip.pl | /usr/local/bin/tidy | \ /usr/local/bin/html2ps | /usr/bin/ps2pdf - -`; header('Content-type: application/pdf'); header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=$page.pdf"); print $content; ?>
clip.pl is a simple perl parser to strip out the nav bar and the like and leave only the article div; any perl neophyte should be able to hack it together. I added a link to the standard template on the intranet wiki I administer, "Get PDF of this page"; it basically just calls [http://evo.mydomain.com/pdfgen/index.php?page=%7B%7BNAMESPACE%7D%7D:%7B%7BPA... }} Get PDF of this page]
I might not want to try this on something like Wikipedia ( all the disk/memory action involved in the multiple conversions might push the system load over-the-top ), but on a fairly busy intranet wiki, the load is nominal, and it's a quick-and-useful hack. :D
Have a good one!
Steve
-----Original Message----- From: mediawiki-l-bounces@Wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces@Wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Rowan Collins Sent: Friday, April 08, 2005 7:58 AM To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] export wiki to PDF
On Apr 8, 2005 3:29 AM, Aaron Macks amacks@techtarget.com wrote:
is there anyway to export an entire wiki to some fixed format, like linked html or pdf?
Some of the tools listed on http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Alternative_parsers are designed for this exact purpose; others could be adapted to it.
I've also added a note there about the dump-using-internals parser that Brion mentionned, because although it's not an alternative parser, it could well be an alternative to using an alternative... :p