FYI
Regards,
Akhil
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From: "Srikanth Lakshmanan" <srik.lak(a)gmail.com>
Date: Jun 6, 2012 2:18 PM
Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] Download as ODT in Indic Wikipedia's
To: "Discussion list on Indian language projects of Wikimedia." <
wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Hello all,
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. While we hope this gets fixed, in the meantime, we can provide
something that's more usable to users. Aamaachu, a Tamil Wikipedia reader
and free software contributor suggested[1] instead of showing "Download as
PDF" (which downloads an unusable PDF), the link could be "Download as
ODT"
and people who want to take content offline could atleast read them
properly. (MS Office 2007 supports opening ODT files as well). I had filed
a bug[2] for the same and all Tamil Wiki projects now show "Download as
ODT" on the portlet. Please consider filing similar bugs for your Indic
Wiki project making the experience more "usable". Of Course once complex
script rendering in PDF is supported, we can always change / add one more
option to list PDF.
Thank you.
[1]
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikita-l/2012-May/000107.html
[2]
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/37154
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Regards
Srikanth.L
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