Re: [Wikitech-l] Rendering preferences for math - PDFs

2011-07-20 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 1:42 PM, Carl (CBM) wrote:
  A second issue that has been raised on the wiki [...]

Which wiki? I guess you mean
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Mathematicsoldid=440414866#RFC:_Should_MW_developers_drop_the_rendering_preferences_for_math.3F
 
and specifically http://en.wikipedia.org/?diff=440362033oldid=440359923

Nemo
(hoping to get the Reply-To from pipermail)

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Re: [Wikitech-l] Rendering preferences for math - PDFs

2011-07-19 Thread Carl (CBM)
A second issue that has been raised on the wiki is the poor quality of
math in PDFs generated from articles. The math shows up as a
low-quality bitmap which is very pixelated and noticeably different
from the body text. I wanted to pass it along to the list.

- Carl

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Re: [Wikitech-l] Rendering preferences for math - PDFs

2011-07-19 Thread Brion Vibber
On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 1:42 PM, Carl (CBM) cbm.wikipe...@gmail.com wrote:

 A second issue that has been raised on the wiki is the poor quality of
 math in PDFs generated from articles. The math shows up as a
 low-quality bitmap which is very pixelated and noticeably different
 from the body text. I wanted to pass it along to the list.


There's an entry in Bugzilla for this; which was initially closed:
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27574

I've gone ahead and re-opened it as it would be nice to fix, but it'll
actually need fixing in PediaPress's mwlib renderer that's used as the
backend for the Collection extension and actually generates the PDFs.

There's some notes on the bug about possible implementation details.

-- brion
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