---Oleg Kobchenko wrote: > 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.
Sorry I didn't mean to suggest that this was a perfect solution or better than a wiki tool that enables us to create a PDF directly from the wiki pages. I totally agree that is where we want to end up. Upgrading the wiki to the latest MoinMoin version (Sept/Oct) will hopefully bring us closer to that end. However we're not there yet and in the meantime this seems like it is a reasonably quick and robust method of providing users with offline copies of key sections of the wiki in the same format (html) as the rest of J's offline help. Many of the downsides of the wget method you raise are valid but I don't think the order of the files in the list is important. Also if the zips created for various parts of the wiki are unzipped to the same root directory of the users drive they will share common files. Actually Fraser's suggestion of an offline help addon might be a good way of attacking this! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
