this idea is a great one ;), this feature is already in Mambo open source CMS system and is very useful. you can see this here, at hte right top of the page: http://www.mambo.org.mx/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=97...
i cant help with the feature because of time but is a veru good idea ;)
2005/6/28, Scott Bauer sbauer230@hotmail.com:
We have a requirement to put together a collaborative environment, which will be populated with content that our viewers might like to print out in pdf. The content will be organized into categories, and all the topics under a category need to be printed in one pdf document.
I've taken a look at media wiki, and I think I see a way to make this happen.
- Use the category feature of mediawiki, to organize all the pages. (we
will have maybe 5 categories). Currently when you click on a category, you get a list of all articles in that category. I would like to add a "Expand All" button/link, which will expand all the articles in place, into one html page.
- Then it's a simple enough matter to use a htmltopdf converter for the
printing to pdf file.
I am willing to start coding this, but as I have never seen the mediawiki codebase before, I'm wondering if anyone has any pointers, or potential traps they see with this approach. I have read much of the information at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/How_to_become_a_MediaWiki_hacker, and would be willing to incorporate this feature back into MediaWiki.
thoughts? sb
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