[Wikimediaindia-l] PDF rendering of Indian language wiki pages

[CherianTinu Abraham]

Does it have anything to do with accessing secure Wikipedia ? Can you try
with normal link?

- Tinu Cherian

2011/2/15 shirish शिरीष <shirishag75 at gmail.com>

> at bottom :-
>
> On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 22:36, Santhosh Thottingal
> <santhosh.thottingal at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > We are working on a Complex script PDF rendering library named
> > PyPDFLib(https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/pypdflib/). One of its
> > test case (or use case) is to render a wiki page in complex script(any
> > Indian Language) to PDF. Currently PDF export feature is not
> > available(not working) for Indian language wiki projects because of
> > technical incapability of Python Reportlab library.
> >
> > Just wanted to give an early preview of this software library through
> > an online interface : http://silpa.smc.org.in/Render
> > You can try with a Wikipedia page in your language and verify the
> generated PDF.
> > You can also access this using this URL
> > http://silpa.smc.org.in/Render?wiki=http://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/இலங்கை
> > (replace that wiki URL with other page addresses too - any Ianguage -
> > not limited to Indian languages)
> >
> > There are lot of items not implemented, but your feedback is requested
> > on the current version.
> > The library uses Pango for text rendering and Cairo for graphics and
> > PDF features.
> >
> > ps: Don't get surprised if you get a 500 Error page for the random
> > page you are trying. Just try another wiki page ;)
>
> I tried 5 different files, all of them gave me 500 error messages .
>
> For e.g.
> http://silpa.smc.org.in/Render?wiki=https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/hi/wiki/%E0%A4%85%E0%A4%B2%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%AE%E0%A5%8B%E0%A4%A1%E0%A4%BC%E0%A4%BE
>
>
> http://silpa.smc.org.in/Render?wiki=https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/hi/wiki/%E0%A4%A7%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%AE
>
>
> http://silpa.smc.org.in/Render?wiki=https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/hi/wiki/%E0%A4%B9%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%A8%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%A6%E0%A5%82_%E0%A4%A7%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%AE
>
>
> http://silpa.smc.org.in/Render?wiki=https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/hi/wiki/%E0%A4%AC%E0%A5%8C%E0%A4%A6%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%A7_%E0%A4%A7%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%AE
>
> I'm just tired doing the copy again and again as it is past my bed time.
>
> Anyways, perhaps it doesn't know to play nicely with the https
> (secured) or just does not want to play with hindi or those particular
> pages.
>
> If somebody does find a page which does not give 500 Internal Server
> message with hindi (preferably with the https:// turned on please let
> me know ) .
>
> > Thanks
> > Santhosh Thottingal
> > http://thottingal.in
>
> --
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>           Shirish Agarwal  शिरीष अग्रवाल
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