[Bf-docboard] About a new PDF version of the wiki

[marco ardito]

> Hello Marco, ... I am envolved in translation to the Czech language 
> and I am sure to use the same principles for collectin one movable 
> manual (unfortunately I am on 10% lenght of translation way.. cause 
> time time time).

provided that translated pages are there, the same PDF could easily be 
done with Czech lang version of the wiki manual...

> My first idea was to build local wiki in my notebook. It is 
> technically possible. It is possible to get wikimedia server, apache, 
> mysql, Naiad Scheme, some scripts.. but it is a little bit complicated 
> way and as somebody say below "mirrorring of wikiserver is not answer".
It could help, you could mirror the wiki: it would be a first big 
download, and then every day a few changes only... if you need an 
offline wiki, I would do this. (mmm, I could do the same for the PDF 
manual conversion... it would be faster - and lighter for the blender 
wiki server - than once a month download every single page...)

> I asked for the possibility to implement some PDF generator scripts on 
> wikimedia server without answer. Than I tried to learn it locally and 
> I have so say it is not simple method. It is very user friendly (you 
> can click on pages needed to the PDF, sort them, and so on). But the 
> engine (wikimedia module based on additional server side scripts) take 
> an wiki server energy... Than I decided to go through method of simple 
> file and conversion.

I learned for other reasons the mediawiki ways to create books, 
collection of wiki pages, and then convert those to pdf or odt, or 
else.. It works, it requires a mwserve server 
(http://mwlib.readthedocs.org/en/latest/index.html), but I find it 
really heavy, for blender manual page and images number... It's quite 
good for relatively small docs.

> So please could you explain how did you get clear pages from wikli 
> maual? Did you process with some wget, or html-to-pdf commands on your 
> local machine? I think that best way is use very simple method to get 
> texts, pictures, links into one local directory. No menu, no special 
> effects, dynamic content and so on.
yep, sortof: see my previous post here...

Marco


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