Hi,
I'm interested in adding that functionality to my Wiki.
How accurate are the instructions found at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/HTML2FPDF_and_Mediawiki for version 1.6.3?
To those that installed it, what is your experience with it?
Thanks! Simon
Moin,
On Monday 24 April 2006 22:27, Simon Renshaw wrote:
Hi,
I'm interested in adding that functionality to my Wiki.
How accurate are the instructions found at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/HTML2FPDF_and_Mediawiki for version 1.6.3?
Cool. I will try it out, although it certainly sounds messy and needs major cleaning off.
I started to toy around with wiki2xml:
http://bloodgate.com/wiki/wiki2xml/w2x.php
and got it to convert one article to OpenOffice ODT (which should allow converting to PDF). But it is not complete yet, and ugly ("Main Page" results in "Main_Page" as headline for instance etc).
My goal is to convert the presentation you see on my wiki to a multi-page PDF document in a completely automated manner (aka: the magic button-click).
Best wishes,
Tels
This is interesting stuff, but it seems to me that the "right" way to architect such a feature following X3C recommendations, would be to produce xsl-fo either directly from the wikitext, or by transforming the XHTML version, and then produce pdf from the XSL-FO using Apache FOP, or a toolchain like passivetex.
Xsl-FO provides the ability to model page layouts and then flow data into pages. -- Rick DeNatale
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Rick DeNatale wrote:
This is interesting stuff, but it seems to me that the "right" way to architect such a feature following X3C recommendations, would be to produce xsl-fo either directly from the wikitext, or by transforming the XHTML version, and then produce pdf from the XSL-FO using Apache FOP, or a toolchain like passivetex.
I was pretty frustrated with FOP when I tried it a year or so ago; lots of features were unimplemented or required weird workarounds.
Is it better these days?
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
On 4/25/06, Brion Vibber brion@pobox.com wrote:
Rick DeNatale wrote:
This is interesting stuff, but it seems to me that the "right" way to architect such a feature following X3C recommendations, would be to produce xsl-fo either directly from the wikitext, or by transforming the XHTML version, and then produce pdf from the XSL-FO using Apache FOP, or a toolchain like passivetex.
I was pretty frustrated with FOP when I tried it a year or so ago; lots of features were unimplemented or required weird workarounds.
Is it better these days?
I don't know, I haven't tried it myself. There are alternatives like going via LaTex using passivetex. I do think that XSL-FO is the right architecture, it just needs the right implementation.
-- Rick DeNatale
Visit the Project Mercury Wiki Site http://www.mercuryspacecraft.com/
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