[Textbook-l] News about PDF generation

[Magnus Manske]

On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 12:16 PM, Robert Arustamyan
<robert at blogpaper.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> We've released new version of our wikibooks pdf generating tool. Now it
> is named wikitype and has moved to http://dash-of-pepper.com/wikitype
>
> New features:
> -- posibility to choose chapters
> -- gfdl license at the end of each book
> -- direct links to generate books like
> http://dash-of-pepper.com/wikitype?url=http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Name_Of_The_Book
> (e.g.
> http://dash-of-pepper.com/wikitype?url=http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Open_Source).
>
>
> If noone minds we can attach some well-formatted PDFs, like Knowing
> Knoppix (
> http://dash-of-pepper.com/wikitype/pdf-of-the-day/Knowing_Knoppix.pdf ),
> to wikibooks.org books and we would be glad if the authors do the same.
>
>
> Looking forward to receive your feedbacks and comments.

Fantastic!

I noticed that some images in the Knoppix books (especially
screenshots) are actually the thumbnail images. They even have the
little "zoom" icon below. I think you should use the full-size images,
as PDFs are often generated for printing and could really benefit from
higher resolution. Since using full-size images would increads both
bandwidth usage and file size considerably, it should probably not be
used on the ebook reader mode (which I'll appreaciate, owning an iRex
Iliad:-).

Also, congratulations on your good non-ASCII handling (testing: "Modern Greek").

For wikipedia articles, maybe you would consider using a textbox (one
article per line)? We could add sone JavaScript "shopping basket"
goodie to Wikipedia and have people collect articles for a topic and
get them PDFed...

Cheers,
Magnus