Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] PDF rendering of Indian language wiki pages

2011-02-15 Thread Santhosh Thottingal
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 9:43 AM, sankarshan wrote: > On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 10:36 PM, Santhosh Thottingal > wrote: > >> Just wanted to give an early preview of this software library through >> an online interface : http://silpa.smc.org.in/Render >> You can try with a Wikipedia page in your langu

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] PDF rendering of Indian language wiki pages

2011-02-15 Thread Santhosh Thottingal
Hi, Thanks for all comments.We will add bug reports on each of these comments with a reference to this mail thread in our bug/task tracker. I will post the updates on the project. If anybody interested to join our team, this is our mailing list : http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pypdflib-d

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] PDF rendering of Indian language wiki pages

2011-02-14 Thread BalaSundaraRaman
erally admitted." - George Boole, quoted in Iverson's Turing Award Lecture - Original Message > From: Santhosh Thottingal > To: Discussion list on Indian language projects of Wikimedia. > > Sent: Mon, February 14, 2011 10:36:14 PM > Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] PDF

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] PDF rendering of Indian language wiki pages

2011-02-14 Thread Hari Prasad Nadig
Santosh, Excellent effort. Kudos to you and the SMC team. I feel that we should setup a wiki page or similar close to the project page for users to put up feedback. Note: Checked with Kannada. The preview verision works fine for most part, which is good. There are some trivial bugs. On Mon, Feb

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] PDF rendering of Indian language wiki pages

2011-02-14 Thread sankarshan
On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 10:36 PM, Santhosh Thottingal wrote: > Just wanted to give an early preview of this software library through > an online interface : http://silpa.smc.org.in/Render > You can try with a Wikipedia page in your language and verify the generated > PDF. > You can also access t

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] PDF rendering of Indian language wiki pages

2011-02-14 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
Santhosh, Good initiative. I tried with Telugu main page with your URL substituted with telugu reference to main page. It works though layout/rendering needs improvement. I presently use Firefox print command on Ubuntu and select print to file (pdf), and I get a fine pdf file, except for the roma

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] PDF rendering of Indian language wiki pages

2011-02-14 Thread Kundan Amitabh
Hi ! I do not find any problem while rendering a wiki page of complex scripts like Hindi in to pdf. Rendering of Indian languages texts is not proper if true fonts are used for typing. Wiki pages do not use true type fonts. -- Best Regards. Kundan Amitabh Managing Director, Ang India Technologie

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] PDF rendering of Indian language wiki pages

2011-02-14 Thread Santhosh Thottingal
On Tue, February 15, 2011 3:44 am, shirish शिरीष wrote: > Anyways, perhaps it doesn't know to play nicely with the https > (secured) or just does not want to play with hindi or those particular > pages. Shirish, secure access to wikipedia is not need here(and not supported as of now). It is just a

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] PDF rendering of Indian language wiki pages

2011-02-14 Thread Shiju Alex
Since the tool is under the early stages of development, I know it is not good to expect a perfect PDF. Some general comments are: - For Malayalam, eventhough the text rendering is almost perfect, I could find there are some unwnated space inserted with in few words. I assume it is due t

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] PDF rendering of Indian language wiki pages

2011-02-14 Thread CherianTinu Abraham
Does it have anything to do with accessing secure Wikipedia ? Can you try with normal link? - Tinu Cherian 2011/2/15 shirish शिरीष > at bottom :- > > On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 22:36, Santhosh Thottingal > wrote: > > Hi, > > We are working on a Complex script PDF rendering library named > > PyPDF

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] PDF rendering of Indian language wiki pages

2011-02-14 Thread shirish शिरीष
at bottom :- On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 22:36, Santhosh Thottingal wrote: > Hi, > We are working on a Complex script PDF rendering library named > PyPDFLib(https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/pypdflib/). One of its > test case (or use case) is to render a wiki page in complex script(any > Indian La

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] PDF rendering of Indian language wiki pages

2011-02-14 Thread Srikanth Lakshmanan
Hi Santhosh, Cool!. Just have some feedback on the generated PDF (Same article ilangai on tamil wikipedia). I see line spacing is not uniform and some characters from adjacent lines overlap, but a slightly more important issue is spacing within the words for certain characters[Am not sure if its a

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] PDF rendering of Indian language wiki pages

2011-02-14 Thread Tanvir Rahman
Hello Santhosh Many thanks for the tool, and yes, it worked. I've rendered a Bengali Wikipedia article with this tool. As far as I see, the characters are okay, but there are problems with the placement of images. Texts are not showing next to the images. They are placed top/below of the images. A

[Wikimediaindia-l] PDF rendering of Indian language wiki pages

2011-02-14 Thread Santhosh Thottingal
Hi, We are working on a Complex script PDF rendering library named PyPDFLib(https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/pypdflib/). One of its test case (or use case) is to render a wiki page in complex script(any Indian Language) to PDF. Currently PDF export feature is not available(not working) for Indi