TL;DR: Wsexport now outputs PDF at https://tools.wmflabs.org/wsexport/tool/book.php + we need you to test ePub 3 output as it will be used by default in a few weeks.

Long version:

Hello everyone,

Marc-Andre Peltier and I have added to wsexport the capacity to export PDF, MOBI, TXT and RTF during the Lyon hackathon. This new feature uses Calibre ebook converter system [1]. We created also a new instance of wsexport on Wikimedia Tool Labs: https://tools.wmflabs.org/wsexport/tool/book.php to test these new formats.

We plan to do two big changes in the next few weeks: 1. Remove wsexport.wmflabs.org and redirect it to tools.wmflabs.org/wsexport . It shouldn't disrupt anything as we will take care of keeping URLs valid. 2. Move the default format from ePub 2 to ePub 3. ePub 3, between other things, allows to use HTML 5 and, so, to add new nice features to eBooks. As ePub 3 should be retrocompatible with ePub 2 this change should not disallow old eReaders to read the ePubs. But, in order to ensure that this statement is true, could you all try to read ePubs 3 created by wsexport on your old reading devices and report bugs that may remain?

Cheers,

Thomas

[1] http://manual.calibre-ebook.com/conversion.html