I still have trouble understanding what's the point of making
functionality worse for a majority of users, or indeed all of them.
I've just tried exporting single pages with the "download PDF" link (the
metadata says they're made by "Chromium") and they're completely
unreadable, with overlapping characters and so on. They're considerably
worse even than the PDF produced by a stock browser from the printable
version (Firefox 56 here).
Even if the previous functionality happened to error out 95 % of the
time, it would be better than the present situation.
Federico
Federico Leva (Nemo), 11/10/2017 09:40:
It
does, of course. Wikisource and Wikibooks users sorely need to print
books for offline reading, it's something we keep hearing from anybody
in "real life".
Removing basic functionality and downgrading existing features for no
gain is an excellent long-run method to kill projects like Wikibooks,
Wikisource and Wikiversity whose potential users (such as teachers and
other OER folks) may prefer alternative platforms which show more care.