On Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at 10:53 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemowiki@gmail.com wrote:
Turning off OCG. Investigating using chromium for printing.
The first sentence is unclear. I think it means "We would like to turn off OCG" (i.e. "replace OCG"), where the second sentence indicates a step to that purpose. Please confirm.
The best description I can find in Phabricator for "Turning off OCG" is https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T150871. There is also https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/PDF_Functionality.
There was also a blurb in Tech News (https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2017/37):
You can't use OCG to create PDFs after 1 October. This is because of technical problems. You can use Electron instead. Most PDFs are already created with Electron. Electron will get missing features before 1 October. You can create books but they will not have all planned features until November or December. You can read more on mediawiki.org.
Hopefully someone working on the project can give pointers to the chromium investigation.
Bryan