:[
Please help recheck the old bugs listed at
https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/BugTriage-mwlib, mostly filed by
Wikisource/Wikibooks users.
Nemo
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Oggetto: [Wikitech-ambassadors] Changes to PDF export; ZIM/EPUB will be
disabled soon
Data: Wed, 24 Sep 2014 19:01:38 -0700
Mittente: Erik Moeller
Rispondi-a: Coordination of technology deployments across languages/projects
Hi folks,
A change from our legacy PDF export infrastructure to a more
maintainable system has been a long time coming. Thanks to the work of
C. Scott Ananian, Matt Walker, Max Semenik, Brad Jorsch, and the
Parsoid/Services teams, we're close to disabling the old PDF rendering
and enabling the new as default.
The old "mwlib" (Reportlab-based) PDF service will be disabled on
September 29 [1], and the new "ocg" (Parsoid/XeLaTex-based) PDF
service will be enabled on the same date. The output looks very
different (two column LaTeX-generated output) and there are a few more
customization options, as well (visible when you use the "Create a
book" feature). This renderer has much improved rendering of non-latin
scripts and fixes many issues of the old PDF service.
There are still a number of bugs to work through, as well, which we
will do as a low priority. Most noticeably, tables are a mess - and
since we have such a large variety of them, that's a pretty long tail.
This is not a high priority project for us. We're looking for
co-maintainers, and we have some ideas how to improve the architecture
to make it easy for the community to optimize for different outputs --
if you're interested in joining the development effort, let us know
via the new services list (
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/services ), wikitech-l or
on #mediawiki-services on
irc.freenode.net.
Please report any bugs against the "OCG" product in Bugzilla.
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=OCG
If you want to more quickly test prior to deployment, you can add this
one-liner to your common.js/global.js, which will point the "Download
as PDF" link in the sidebar to the new renderer:
$('#coll-download-as-rl a').each(function() { this.href =
this.href.replace(/([&?]writer=)rl(&|$)/g, "$1rdf2latex$2") });
As part of this change, we will disable ZIM and EPUB export for the
time being. If you're interested in working on ZIM or EPUB support for
the new offline content generator, or other export formats, please let
us know via the above channels.
Thanks,
Erik
[1] See
https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments for the
planned deployment window
--
Erik Möller
VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation
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