[Mediawiki-l] Suggestions for best methods for converting sites or portions thereof to PDF?

[Ken McDonald]

Do you have any documents that are public and that I could download to 
see what the output looks like?

Thanks,
Ken

John Moorhouse wrote:
> To risk being misunderstood but size doesn't seem to matter we have 
> documents being built up to around 120 A4 pages at the moment, we have 
> activated 'sub pages' within the main namespace and have developed 
> system that takes an index page eg. named test, which lists subpages 
> such as
>
> *[[/part1/]]
> *[[/part2/]]
> *[[/part3/]]
> *[[/part4/]]
>
> that converts this to
>
> *[[test/part1|part1]]
> *[[test/part2|part2]]
> *[[test/part3|part3]]
> *[[test/part4|part4]]
>
> ----
> [[all:test|See all sections on one page]]
>
> and also gives us this wiki text that then bulds the whole lot onto one page
>
> ====[[test/part1|part1]]====
> {{:test/part1}}
> ====[[test/part2|part2]]====
> {{:test/part2}}
> ====[[test/part3|part3]]====
> {{:test/part3}}
> ====[[test/part3|part3]]====
> {{:test/part3}}
>
> ----
> *[[test|return to :- Test]]
>
> We then go on building up till we have all the section / sub sections of 
> the document on one page, we have some documents when the subpage 
> nesting is down to 5 levels, this is the maximum that you can use and 
> still get a usable TOC created.
>
> Ta
>
> John
>
>
>
> Ken McDonald wrote:
>   
>> Thanks for the feedback. We'll build a somewhat more complex system (we 
>> want to automatically generate large documents, and then make them 
>> available for our users), but one important fact from this is that 
>> HTMLDOC works well.) Should be interesting.
>>
>> Ken
>>
>>
>> John Moorhouse wrote:
>>   
>>     
>>> We are successfully using (MW 1.9.3)
>>>
>>> http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Pdf_Export
>>>
>>> To do this, only issues we have had so far is that it appears in the 
>>> toolbox which mean users have to be logged in to use it, I've also had 
>>> to work with some of the other extensions we use that add usefuly 
>>> navigation information and edit one of the CSS files to add further div 
>>> exclusions so that they don't appear in the printed output
>>>
>>> Ta
>>>
>>> John
>>>
>>> Ken McDonald wrote:
>>>   
>>>     
>>>       
>>>> We'd like to convert some (eventually all) of our site to printable PDF 
>>>> (and to be able to autogenerate such in the future.) It's easy enough to 
>>>> batch-download html, and to organize either via internal tags or an 
>>>> external TOC (in conjunction with scripts). Is there a better way to do 
>>>> it directly? And if not, any recommendations for good HTML->PDF 
>>>> converters, preferably ones that we could do pagination in, and 
>>>> preferably convert internal links into page references?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Ken
>>>>
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