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Hi all,<br>
<br>
in the past (2.4x) I already did a Blender wiki > PDF conversion,
hosted on archive.org, but also linked by the official wiki manual
pages, see top of this page: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:2.4/Manual">http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:2.4/Manual</a><br>
<br>
The whole process is basically:<br>
1) download everything needed (wiki pages, images)<br>
2) adapt downloaded html<br>
3) convert adapted html to a single pdf<br>
<br>
To be honest in this version the result was not very good (one for
all: no unicode support => lots of encoding quirks!) mainly
because step 3 was based on HTMLdoc<br>
(see
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Meta:Tools/Wiki_conversions/Wiki_to_PDF/HTMLDoc">http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Meta:Tools/Wiki_conversions/Wiki_to_PDF/HTMLDoc</a>)<br>
<br>
Then came the 2.5x days, and the wiki content was completely
revamped because nearly everything changed in Blender UI and
features, but then also the wiki style and features were completely
revamped as it is now, so I decided to wait.<br>
<br>
A few months ago, since the English wiki seemed quite complete and
stable again, I looked for some way to improve the old conversion
process and I found a new method for step 3, based on wkhtmlpdf. The
results are quite good, still not perfect but definitely better! <br>
You can see the last two versions here: <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://archive.org/details/BlenderWikiPDFManual">https://archive.org/details/BlenderWikiPDFManual</a><br>
<br>
Do any bf-docboard "manager" feel it could be worth to include any
info about this downloadable PDF anywhere on the 2.6x wiki, as it
was (and still is) for 2.4x? I could take care of maintaining this,
in the wiki, as I did in the past.<br>
<br>
I already posted news about this new PDF in BA forums but I still
feel the most logical place is just near its source, the wiki
itself, of course. As said, it is now hosted on archive.org, but I
could upload this PDF elsewhere, even on Blender.org servers, if
needed.<br>
<br>
About publishing the conversion script, quite simple but still
rough, is nothing too complicated for any basic php coder, but I'm
concerned that it could be somehow dangerous to make it (too) easy
for anyone to download the whole wiki content (images ant text): too
many people using it could cause very high load on wiki servers, I
fear: I don't want to harm Blender servers (for latest release I
downloaded around 640 wiki pages and nearly 100 MB of images).<br>
<br>
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<div><b>Marco</b></div>
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