Indeed, interesting for Wikisource.

Yann

============ Hi friends,

A few of us know that I'm very insteresting in having a technical way to print one article or a set of article as a PDF document.

They are two technical approaches : * A wiki2pdf tool * A html2pdf tool

Both do not exist, better : they exists but are not really satisfying. The arguments behind this opinion are pretty the same than thus I have used again people who wanted to build an offline-reader without an HTML renderer. So, I believe the first will never be satisfying and that's why I really take care about the last developments of the second solution.

The most interesting project is the Cairo one : http://cairographics.org/news/cairo-1.4.6/

This is the new graphics rendering library behind gecko 1.9, itself used in the next version of Firefox 3. If we are lucky it will used too with the next releases of Kiwix. http://www.mozilla.org/roadmap/gecko-1.9-roadmap.html

Bot projects (Cairo & Gecko 1.9) have made a lot of progress the last monts, and it's pretty sure that the next firefox will have a "save as PDF" feauture.

A private company have build a web page to test the rendering of web pages as PDF using the last unstable version of gecko (still in development) : http://gecko.dynalivery.com/

I have done a test with one of our articles : http://195.221.21.162/enwiki/dvd/art/1.html

as Attachment the result.

IMHO, it will certainly possible for us to integrate that feature in a middle-term.

Best regards

Emmanuel