I wrote some stuff to output MediaWiki as PDF here: http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=PDF_Export Basically, I copy index.php to PrintArticle.php with some modifications that parses the article for {Title} or {Title1 | Title2} where {Title} is the article(s) to export to PDF, and two titles separated by a | indicates no page breaking in the exported PDF. Images are preserved as well as practically all formatting. I use htmldoc from www.htmldoc.com So you would create a page titled: PDF Article For Whatever {Whatever Article 1} {Whatever Article 2} {Short Article 3 | Short 4 | Short 5} {Whatever 6} Then an href link to the PrintArticle page: [http://yoursite.com/PrintArticle.php/PDF_Article_For_Whatever Create PDF for this article] Then clicking on the "Create PDF for this article" generates something like... Creating: (Whatever Article 1) etc... PDF_Article_For_Whatever.pdf The HTML for those articles is generated by MediaWiki and saved by the PrintArticle page mods to your server temp folder. I then exec() htmldoc to generate the PDF, saved in a /printouts folder that you must create w/same privileges as /images (basically Apache needs to be able to create the file in that folder). You can get to it that posting when the meta site is back up. - MHart - http://taxalmanac.org ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tarjei Knapstad" <tarjei.knapstad(a)gmail.com> To: "Mediawiki" <mediawiki-l(a)wikimedia.org> Sent: Tuesday, June 07, 2005 11:57 AM Subject: [Mediawiki-l] Printing/typesetting/converting mediawiki documents Hi, We've recently started using Mediawiki quite extensively around the office as part of the intranet, and it's working out great. Thanks for a great piece of software! We have one minor gripe though, which I'm trying to find a solution to: Are there any extensions or tools to print one or more wiki pages to postscript or PDF in a nice way? Printing from Mozilla is quite decent, but you often end up with funny page breaks, there's some headers/footers I can live without etc. etc. Some solutions that've popped into my mind: * is it possible to create an extension for this? * is it possible to modify the css or whatever it is that decides how the browser prints? * are there any third party tools that could PDF-ify a Mediawiki DB? * ... other ideas? Any tips and pointers would be greatly appreciated. Cheers, -- Tarjei Knapstad _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)Wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l