I was thinking of wget. However, this isn't a perfect solutions either: it needs a separate running step either on client or server; the result is a group of files that need to be hosted somehow--how this will act for a number of such groups; local searching; printing, etc.
PDF gives a nice alternative: many advantages of CHM but cross-platform: single file, can be indexed by system, easy search, easy print. There is a effort in creating the list of files in correct order for wget, so it can be applied to the consolidated page. Even with automatic updating of PDF, the resulting combined page can be saved as a single file (MHT) with images etc. There are many free tools that create PDF from anything. At some point we'll need to integrate PDF creation in Wiki. --- On Mon, 6/16/08, Sherlock, Ric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ---Chris Burke wrote: > > What Oleg has done for Plot should be adequate for > other > > major parts of > > the system. However, it would be nice to be able to > snapshot > > the entire > > wiki for offline use - it is an open question on how > best to do this. > > The wget command below will create an HTML snapshot of the > Plot section of the wiki so that it can be browsed offline. > > I have made such a snapshot and linked it from the wiki > <http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/Plot>. > > Maybe a script on the server could run this command on a > schedule (or on-change) and update zipped offline versions > of the Plot, Project Manager and Grid sections of the wiki? > Links to those zips could be on the respective base pages. > By using wget's recursive option, potentially the whole > wiki could be done (although I don't think that this > would be desirable). > > C:\offlineJwiki>"c:\program > files\j602\tools\ftp\wget.exe" -EHkKp > --limit-rate=5k -erobots=off -i > c:\offlineJwiki\plotwget.txt > > Where plotwget.txt is a text file containing the following > list of urls: > http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/Plot > http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/Plot/Verbs > http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/Plot/Class > http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/Plot/Commands > http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/Plot/Data > http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/Plot/Options > http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/Plot/Outputs > http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/Plot/Types > http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/Plot/Colors > http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/Plot/Fonts > http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/Plot/Keys > http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/Plot/Text > http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/Plot/YAxes > http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/Plot/Function > http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/Plot/Multi > http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/Plot/Shape > http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/Plot/Layout > http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/Plot/Source > http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/Plot/Extensibility > http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/Plot/Examples > http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/Studio/Gallery > http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/Studio/Plot ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
