Hi All,
I'm pleased to announce a new web service.
MediaWiki2PDF - is a free online service, that allows you to generate nice looking PDF documents from books found on wikibooks.org. It looks through child pages and collects chapters and subchapters into a single, well-formatted PDF document. All you have to do, is just enter url of the book and press "Enter". From recent time service can also generates PDF-s from wikipedia articles. It is possible to get PDF in A4/Letter and e-book (suitable for e-readers) sized formats.
Visit us at http://blogpaper.com/mediawiki2pdf
We hope it will be useful to you.
Best Regards.
Blogpaper Development Team.
Hi Robert,
this is great news. Is it also possible to add together a few articles in one pdf? Especially on wikibooks this would be very useful!
Lodewijk
2008/5/7, Robert Arustamyan robert@blogpaper.com:
Hi All,
I'm pleased to announce a new web service.
MediaWiki2PDF - is a free online service, that allows you to generate nice looking PDF documents from books found on wikibooks.org. It looks through child pages and collects chapters and subchapters into a single, well-formatted PDF document. All you have to do, is just enter url of the book and press "Enter". From recent time service can also generates PDF-s from wikipedia articles. It is possible to get PDF in A4/Letter and e-book (suitable for e-readers) sized formats.
Visit us at http://blogpaper.com/mediawiki2pdf
We hope it will be useful to you.
Best Regards.
Blogpaper Development Team.
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Hi Effe,
Your feedback is match appreciated.
Yes, it's posible to create a pdf from a few wikibooks articles. We are also adding new feautures for wikipedia.
Robert
effe iets anders wrote:
Hi Robert,
this is great news. Is it also possible to add together a few articles in one pdf? Especially on wikibooks this would be very useful!
Lodewijk
2008/5/7, Robert Arustamyan robert@blogpaper.com:
Robert Arustamyan wrote:
Hi All,
I'm pleased to announce a new web service.
MediaWiki2PDF - is a free online service, that allows you to generate nice looking PDF documents from books found on wikibooks.org. It looks through child pages and collects chapters and subchapters into a single, well-formatted PDF document. All you have to do, is just enter url of the book and press "Enter". From recent time service can also generates PDF-s from wikipedia articles. It is possible to get PDF in A4/Letter and e-book (suitable for e-readers) sized formats.
Visit us at http://blogpaper.com/mediawiki2pdf
We hope it will be useful to you.
Best Regards.
Blogpaper Development Team.
Great! It would also be very useful at Wikisource. Can it work for Wikisource?
Yann
On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 2:23 PM, Yann Forget yann@forget-me.net wrote:
Great! It would also be very useful at Wikisource. Can it work for Wikisource?
in so far as it works at all, I would assume it probably works at wikisource too. The only way to tell is to type in the URL of a wikisource book and see what comes out the other side.
--Andrew Whitworth
I have created now a pdf of a more normal book (a pdf of the main page is a nightmare btw, a really good test for complicated templates), and it mainly prefers simple and easy text.
As I see, it might have some problems with transparent images, they seem to get a black background. I really like the general content pages, but maybe it is good to skip all the ToC's of the seperate pages?
A great way of resolving this is giving the output in an editable format, so that people can easily remove that kind of things, and adapt as they like it.
An option you might want to add: o Compile a list of all authors and add that to the end, together with the license text (in case of wikipedia: GFDL, in case of nlwikibooks: GFDL & CC-BY-SA)
Maybe this makes things more complicated, but making it editable (odf) would do much good!
BR, lodewijk
2008/5/7, Andrew Whitworth wknight8111@gmail.com:
On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 2:23 PM, Yann Forget yann@forget-me.net wrote:
Great! It would also be very useful at Wikisource. Can it work for Wikisource?
in so far as it works at all, I would assume it probably works at wikisource too. The only way to tell is to type in the URL of a wikisource book and see what comes out the other side.
--Andrew Whitworth
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Andrew,
It wouldn't work, but we are going to add this feature soon.
Robert
Andrew Whitworth wrote:
On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 2:23 PM, Yann Forget yann@forget-me.net wrote:
Great! It would also be very useful at Wikisource. Can it work for Wikisource?
in so far as it works at all, I would assume it probably works at wikisource too. The only way to tell is to type in the URL of a wikisource book and see what comes out the other side.
--Andrew Whitworth
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