On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 3:49 PM, sankarshan <foss.mailinglists(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote:
On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 2:17 PM, Srikanth Lakshmanan
<srik.lak(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Most of know the "Download as PDF"
feature is not usable on Indic wikis
with
Collection Extension due to issues in PDF
generation with complex
scripts.
Can you point out the issues as well please ?
The bug[1] which requires pypdflib[2] (or similar pdf generation library
which Collection extension could use) to be stable / working for
Indic languages which has complex scripts.
A question that would be relevant is whether any device accessing the
Indic Wikipedia (desktop [own/shared], laptop, mobile)
will have the
adequate means to handle, display and render ODT formats.
You got a valid point there. Having a PDF option by which one can open but
not use it provides same value as having an ODT which one cannot open.
Generated PDF has glyphs rendered in parts and/or wrong order, one cannot
use them. On the other hand, even if someone does not have capability to
view ODT(let's say people with MS-Office 2000), some people will try to
atleast google ODT, know about ODT,LibreOffice or programs which can open
ODT and the interested ones will download and use it.
On a tangential note, it will be interesting to know the click stats of
links on Collection extension to see how many people use "Download as"
links.
[1]
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/28206
[2]
https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/pypdflib
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Regards
Srikanth.L