On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 12:16 PM, Robert Arustamyan robert@blogpaper.com wrote:
Hello,
We've released new version of our wikibooks pdf generating tool. Now it is named wikitype and has moved to http://dash-of-pepper.com/wikitype
New features: -- posibility to choose chapters -- gfdl license at the end of each book -- direct links to generate books like http://dash-of-pepper.com/wikitype?url=http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Name_Of_... (e.g. http://dash-of-pepper.com/wikitype?url=http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Open_Sou...).
If noone minds we can attach some well-formatted PDFs, like Knowing Knoppix ( http://dash-of-pepper.com/wikitype/pdf-of-the-day/Knowing_Knoppix.pdf ), to wikibooks.org books and we would be glad if the authors do the same.
Looking forward to receive your feedbacks and comments.
Fantastic!
I noticed that some images in the Knoppix books (especially screenshots) are actually the thumbnail images. They even have the little "zoom" icon below. I think you should use the full-size images, as PDFs are often generated for printing and could really benefit from higher resolution. Since using full-size images would increads both bandwidth usage and file size considerably, it should probably not be used on the ebook reader mode (which I'll appreaciate, owning an iRex Iliad:-).
Also, congratulations on your good non-ASCII handling (testing: "Modern Greek").
For wikipedia articles, maybe you would consider using a textbox (one article per line)? We could add sone JavaScript "shopping basket" goodie to Wikipedia and have people collect articles for a topic and get them PDFed...
Cheers, Magnus