We'd like to convert some (eventually all) of our site to printable PDF (and to be able to autogenerate such in the future.) It's easy enough to batch-download html, and to organize either via internal tags or an external TOC (in conjunction with scripts). Is there a better way to do it directly? And if not, any recommendations for good HTML->PDF converters, preferably ones that we could do pagination in, and preferably convert internal links into page references?
Thanks, Ken
We are successfully using (MW 1.9.3)
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Pdf_Export
To do this, only issues we have had so far is that it appears in the toolbox which mean users have to be logged in to use it, I've also had to work with some of the other extensions we use that add usefuly navigation information and edit one of the CSS files to add further div exclusions so that they don't appear in the printed output
Ta
John
Ken McDonald wrote:
We'd like to convert some (eventually all) of our site to printable PDF (and to be able to autogenerate such in the future.) It's easy enough to batch-download html, and to organize either via internal tags or an external TOC (in conjunction with scripts). Is there a better way to do it directly? And if not, any recommendations for good HTML->PDF converters, preferably ones that we could do pagination in, and preferably convert internal links into page references?
Thanks, Ken
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Thanks for the feedback. We'll build a somewhat more complex system (we want to automatically generate large documents, and then make them available for our users), but one important fact from this is that HTMLDOC works well.) Should be interesting.
Ken
John Moorhouse wrote:
We are successfully using (MW 1.9.3)
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Pdf_Export
To do this, only issues we have had so far is that it appears in the toolbox which mean users have to be logged in to use it, I've also had to work with some of the other extensions we use that add usefuly navigation information and edit one of the CSS files to add further div exclusions so that they don't appear in the printed output
Ta
John
Ken McDonald wrote:
We'd like to convert some (eventually all) of our site to printable PDF (and to be able to autogenerate such in the future.) It's easy enough to batch-download html, and to organize either via internal tags or an external TOC (in conjunction with scripts). Is there a better way to do it directly? And if not, any recommendations for good HTML->PDF converters, preferably ones that we could do pagination in, and preferably convert internal links into page references?
Thanks, Ken
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To risk being misunderstood but size doesn't seem to matter we have documents being built up to around 120 A4 pages at the moment, we have activated 'sub pages' within the main namespace and have developed system that takes an index page eg. named test, which lists subpages such as
*[[/part1/]] *[[/part2/]] *[[/part3/]] *[[/part4/]]
that converts this to
*[[test/part1|part1]] *[[test/part2|part2]] *[[test/part3|part3]] *[[test/part4|part4]]
---- [[all:test|See all sections on one page]]
and also gives us this wiki text that then bulds the whole lot onto one page
====[[test/part1|part1]]==== {{:test/part1}} ====[[test/part2|part2]]==== {{:test/part2}} ====[[test/part3|part3]]==== {{:test/part3}} ====[[test/part3|part3]]==== {{:test/part3}}
---- *[[test|return to :- Test]]
We then go on building up till we have all the section / sub sections of the document on one page, we have some documents when the subpage nesting is down to 5 levels, this is the maximum that you can use and still get a usable TOC created.
Ta
John
Ken McDonald wrote:
Thanks for the feedback. We'll build a somewhat more complex system (we want to automatically generate large documents, and then make them available for our users), but one important fact from this is that HTMLDOC works well.) Should be interesting.
Ken
John Moorhouse wrote:
We are successfully using (MW 1.9.3)
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Pdf_Export
To do this, only issues we have had so far is that it appears in the toolbox which mean users have to be logged in to use it, I've also had to work with some of the other extensions we use that add usefuly navigation information and edit one of the CSS files to add further div exclusions so that they don't appear in the printed output
Ta
John
Ken McDonald wrote:
We'd like to convert some (eventually all) of our site to printable PDF (and to be able to autogenerate such in the future.) It's easy enough to batch-download html, and to organize either via internal tags or an external TOC (in conjunction with scripts). Is there a better way to do it directly? And if not, any recommendations for good HTML->PDF converters, preferably ones that we could do pagination in, and preferably convert internal links into page references?
Thanks, Ken
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That's impressive. Given that HTMLDOC doesn't support styles, I'm assuming that everything (in particular, floating elements) gets sorta "flattened out", and style-based font and other settings are lost? But things like lists still come through (mostly) good-looking?
Thanks once more, Ken
John Moorhouse wrote:
To risk being misunderstood but size doesn't seem to matter we have documents being built up to around 120 A4 pages at the moment, we have activated 'sub pages' within the main namespace and have developed system that takes an index page eg. named test, which lists subpages such as
*[[/part1/]] *[[/part2/]] *[[/part3/]] *[[/part4/]]
that converts this to
*[[test/part1|part1]] *[[test/part2|part2]] *[[test/part3|part3]] *[[test/part4|part4]]
[[all:test|See all sections on one page]]
and also gives us this wiki text that then bulds the whole lot onto one page
====[[test/part1|part1]]==== {{:test/part1}} ====[[test/part2|part2]]==== {{:test/part2}} ====[[test/part3|part3]]==== {{:test/part3}} ====[[test/part3|part3]]==== {{:test/part3}}
*[[test|return to :- Test]]
We then go on building up till we have all the section / sub sections of the document on one page, we have some documents when the subpage nesting is down to 5 levels, this is the maximum that you can use and still get a usable TOC created.
Ta
John
Ken McDonald wrote:
Thanks for the feedback. We'll build a somewhat more complex system (we want to automatically generate large documents, and then make them available for our users), but one important fact from this is that HTMLDOC works well.) Should be interesting.
Ken
John Moorhouse wrote:
We are successfully using (MW 1.9.3)
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Pdf_Export
To do this, only issues we have had so far is that it appears in the toolbox which mean users have to be logged in to use it, I've also had to work with some of the other extensions we use that add usefuly navigation information and edit one of the CSS files to add further div exclusions so that they don't appear in the printed output
Ta
John
Ken McDonald wrote:
We'd like to convert some (eventually all) of our site to printable PDF (and to be able to autogenerate such in the future.) It's easy enough to batch-download html, and to organize either via internal tags or an external TOC (in conjunction with scripts). Is there a better way to do it directly? And if not, any recommendations for good HTML->PDF converters, preferably ones that we could do pagination in, and preferably convert internal links into page references?
Thanks, Ken
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Ken McDonald wrote:
That's impressive. Given that HTMLDOC doesn't support styles, I'm assuming that everything (in particular, floating elements) gets sorta "flattened out", and style-based font and other settings are lost? But things like lists still come through (mostly) good-looking?
Bascically the PDF documents look exactly like the 'printable' version selectedable from the wiki toolbox, I have just thought that the pages are just text / tables we don't currently have any diagrams or images on the site, so I don't know how it would handle those, I'll have a go when I'm back in the office (this is a intranet only system at the moment)
Ta
John
Thanks once more, Ken
John Moorhouse wrote:
To risk being misunderstood but size doesn't seem to matter we have documents being built up to around 120 A4 pages at the moment, we have activated 'sub pages' within the main namespace and have developed system that takes an index page eg. named test, which lists subpages such as
*[[/part1/]] *[[/part2/]] *[[/part3/]] *[[/part4/]]
that converts this to
*[[test/part1|part1]] *[[test/part2|part2]] *[[test/part3|part3]] *[[test/part4|part4]]
[[all:test|See all sections on one page]]
and also gives us this wiki text that then bulds the whole lot onto one page
====[[test/part1|part1]]==== {{:test/part1}} ====[[test/part2|part2]]==== {{:test/part2}} ====[[test/part3|part3]]==== {{:test/part3}} ====[[test/part3|part3]]==== {{:test/part3}}
*[[test|return to :- Test]]
We then go on building up till we have all the section / sub sections of the document on one page, we have some documents when the subpage nesting is down to 5 levels, this is the maximum that you can use and still get a usable TOC created.
Ta
John
Ken McDonald wrote:
Thanks for the feedback. We'll build a somewhat more complex system (we want to automatically generate large documents, and then make them available for our users), but one important fact from this is that HTMLDOC works well.) Should be interesting.
Ken
John Moorhouse wrote:
We are successfully using (MW 1.9.3)
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Pdf_Export
To do this, only issues we have had so far is that it appears in the toolbox which mean users have to be logged in to use it, I've also had to work with some of the other extensions we use that add usefuly navigation information and edit one of the CSS files to add further div exclusions so that they don't appear in the printed output
Ta
John
Ken McDonald wrote:
We'd like to convert some (eventually all) of our site to printable PDF (and to be able to autogenerate such in the future.) It's easy enough to batch-download html, and to organize either via internal tags or an external TOC (in conjunction with scripts). Is there a better way to do it directly? And if not, any recommendations for good HTML->PDF converters, preferably ones that we could do pagination in, and preferably convert internal links into page references?
Thanks, Ken
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We're doing a lot of images (we're a 3D graphics company) with text flowing around them, plus using a number of other CSS features. Since HTMLDOC doesn't do CSS, I'm guessing that won't come through.
Many thanks for all of your feedback, Ken McDonald
John Moorhouse wrote:
Ken McDonald wrote:
That's impressive. Given that HTMLDOC doesn't support styles, I'm assuming that everything (in particular, floating elements) gets sorta "flattened out", and style-based font and other settings are lost? But things like lists still come through (mostly) good-looking?
Bascically the PDF documents look exactly like the 'printable' version selectedable from the wiki toolbox, I have just thought that the pages are just text / tables we don't currently have any diagrams or images on the site, so I don't know how it would handle those, I'll have a go when I'm back in the office (this is a intranet only system at the moment)
Ta
John
Thanks once more, Ken
John Moorhouse wrote:
To risk being misunderstood but size doesn't seem to matter we have documents being built up to around 120 A4 pages at the moment, we have activated 'sub pages' within the main namespace and have developed system that takes an index page eg. named test, which lists subpages such as
*[[/part1/]] *[[/part2/]] *[[/part3/]] *[[/part4/]]
that converts this to
*[[test/part1|part1]] *[[test/part2|part2]] *[[test/part3|part3]] *[[test/part4|part4]]
[[all:test|See all sections on one page]]
and also gives us this wiki text that then bulds the whole lot onto one page
====[[test/part1|part1]]==== {{:test/part1}} ====[[test/part2|part2]]==== {{:test/part2}} ====[[test/part3|part3]]==== {{:test/part3}} ====[[test/part3|part3]]==== {{:test/part3}}
*[[test|return to :- Test]]
We then go on building up till we have all the section / sub sections of the document on one page, we have some documents when the subpage nesting is down to 5 levels, this is the maximum that you can use and still get a usable TOC created.
Ta
John
Ken McDonald wrote:
Thanks for the feedback. We'll build a somewhat more complex system (we want to automatically generate large documents, and then make them available for our users), but one important fact from this is that HTMLDOC works well.) Should be interesting.
Ken
John Moorhouse wrote:
We are successfully using (MW 1.9.3)
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Pdf_Export
To do this, only issues we have had so far is that it appears in the toolbox which mean users have to be logged in to use it, I've also had to work with some of the other extensions we use that add usefuly navigation information and edit one of the CSS files to add further div exclusions so that they don't appear in the printed output
Ta
John
Ken McDonald wrote:
We'd like to convert some (eventually all) of our site to printable PDF (and to be able to autogenerate such in the future.) It's easy enough to batch-download html, and to organize either via internal tags or an external TOC (in conjunction with scripts). Is there a better way to do it directly? And if not, any recommendations for good HTML->PDF converters, preferably ones that we could do pagination in, and preferably convert internal links into page references?
Thanks, Ken
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Do you have any documents that are public and that I could download to see what the output looks like?
Thanks, Ken
John Moorhouse wrote:
To risk being misunderstood but size doesn't seem to matter we have documents being built up to around 120 A4 pages at the moment, we have activated 'sub pages' within the main namespace and have developed system that takes an index page eg. named test, which lists subpages such as
*[[/part1/]] *[[/part2/]] *[[/part3/]] *[[/part4/]]
that converts this to
*[[test/part1|part1]] *[[test/part2|part2]] *[[test/part3|part3]] *[[test/part4|part4]]
[[all:test|See all sections on one page]]
and also gives us this wiki text that then bulds the whole lot onto one page
====[[test/part1|part1]]==== {{:test/part1}} ====[[test/part2|part2]]==== {{:test/part2}} ====[[test/part3|part3]]==== {{:test/part3}} ====[[test/part3|part3]]==== {{:test/part3}}
*[[test|return to :- Test]]
We then go on building up till we have all the section / sub sections of the document on one page, we have some documents when the subpage nesting is down to 5 levels, this is the maximum that you can use and still get a usable TOC created.
Ta
John
Ken McDonald wrote:
Thanks for the feedback. We'll build a somewhat more complex system (we want to automatically generate large documents, and then make them available for our users), but one important fact from this is that HTMLDOC works well.) Should be interesting.
Ken
John Moorhouse wrote:
We are successfully using (MW 1.9.3)
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Pdf_Export
To do this, only issues we have had so far is that it appears in the toolbox which mean users have to be logged in to use it, I've also had to work with some of the other extensions we use that add usefuly navigation information and edit one of the CSS files to add further div exclusions so that they don't appear in the printed output
Ta
John
Ken McDonald wrote:
We'd like to convert some (eventually all) of our site to printable PDF (and to be able to autogenerate such in the future.) It's easy enough to batch-download html, and to organize either via internal tags or an external TOC (in conjunction with scripts). Is there a better way to do it directly? And if not, any recommendations for good HTML->PDF converters, preferably ones that we could do pagination in, and preferably convert internal links into page references?
Thanks, Ken
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I don't see why not but I won't be able to sort something until I'm back in work on Monday.
Ta
John
Ken McDonald wrote:
Do you have any documents that are public and that I could download to see what the output looks like?
Thanks, Ken
John Moorhouse wrote:
To risk being misunderstood but size doesn't seem to matter we have documents being built up to around 120 A4 pages at the moment, we have activated 'sub pages' within the main namespace and have developed system that takes an index page eg. named test, which lists subpages such as
*[[/part1/]] *[[/part2/]] *[[/part3/]] *[[/part4/]]
that converts this to
*[[test/part1|part1]] *[[test/part2|part2]] *[[test/part3|part3]] *[[test/part4|part4]]
[[all:test|See all sections on one page]]
and also gives us this wiki text that then bulds the whole lot onto one page
====[[test/part1|part1]]==== {{:test/part1}} ====[[test/part2|part2]]==== {{:test/part2}} ====[[test/part3|part3]]==== {{:test/part3}} ====[[test/part3|part3]]==== {{:test/part3}}
*[[test|return to :- Test]]
We then go on building up till we have all the section / sub sections of the document on one page, we have some documents when the subpage nesting is down to 5 levels, this is the maximum that you can use and still get a usable TOC created.
Ta
John
Ken McDonald wrote:
Thanks for the feedback. We'll build a somewhat more complex system (we want to automatically generate large documents, and then make them available for our users), but one important fact from this is that HTMLDOC works well.) Should be interesting.
Ken
John Moorhouse wrote:
We are successfully using (MW 1.9.3)
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Pdf_Export
To do this, only issues we have had so far is that it appears in the toolbox which mean users have to be logged in to use it, I've also had to work with some of the other extensions we use that add usefuly navigation information and edit one of the CSS files to add further div exclusions so that they don't appear in the printed output
Ta
John
Ken McDonald wrote:
We'd like to convert some (eventually all) of our site to printable PDF (and to be able to autogenerate such in the future.) It's easy enough to batch-download html, and to organize either via internal tags or an external TOC (in conjunction with scripts). Is there a better way to do it directly? And if not, any recommendations for good HTML->PDF converters, preferably ones that we could do pagination in, and preferably convert internal links into page references?
Thanks, Ken
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