Frank Peters wrote:
Frank Peters wrote:
Issues:
- Mediawiki does not support image export (or does it?)
- The process should be controlled by a script that
accesses the wiki, fetches the pages, converts them
and creates PDF (did anyone say "Perl"? ;-)
Anything else?
We'd need a solid template for creating ODF and PDF defining
styles, layout, colors, etc. Also, we may need different
templates for Letter and A4 page size.
I have never seen a direct-to-PDF conversion (other than from
some page-layout program like OOo or MSO) that produces PDFs that
I consider acceptable for publication. For example, page breaks
are often bad. No doubt a script could overcome some of this, but
not all, as some is a matter of human judgement rather than
algorithms.
Also, a problem for both ODT and PDF output from wiki pages:
where will the index entries come from? Is there a way to put
index entries into a wiki page, so that they will be output to
the ODT? The ones in the ODT files got lost when converting to
MediaWiki. That is an argument for keeping the source for the
OOoAuthors books, at least, in ODT format. No-- don't anyone tell
me about scripts for automatic indexing: the results are not
acceptable.
--Jean
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