As an addendum; when reporting bugs; we will need one of the following two
things to debug:
1) The title of page (or collection being rendered)
2) The collection_id parameter from the URL on the status page

~Matt Walker
Wikimedia Foundation


On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 6:17 PM, Matthew Walker <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Ambassadors (and developers),
>
> I am tremendously happy to announce that the new PDF rendering service is
> live for testing on the cluster. At this time, while we shake out
> production bugs, it is only available via Special:Book using the 'e-book
> (PDF, ocg latex renderer)'. You can also render a specific page by mangling
> a 'Download as PDF' sidebar URL as shown in [1]. Specifically, you need to
> change the 'writer' GET param to rdf2latex.
>
> Among other things, this service should have significantly better RTL and
> non latin language support.
>
> We do have two known large bugs
> * We do not yet have table support
> * Lots of images fail to render -- this is a recent regression so we
> should have a fix quickly.
>
> If you have additional bugs to report; please file a bug in bugzilla under
> the Collection MediaWiki extension [2].
>
> For fun plots see ganglia [3] or graphite [4] under the ocg/pdf node.
>
> Note: During the deployment the new renderer was available in the sidebar.
> This was reverted fairly quickly, but some pages may still have the link in
> cache. It will go away on the next page render / purge.
>
> [1]
> https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Book&bookcmd=render_article&arttitle=Main+Page&oldid=615503846&writer=rdf2latex
> [2]
> https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=MediaWiki%20extensions&component=Collection
> [3] http://ganglia.wikimedia.org/latest/?c=PDF%20servers%20eqiad
> [4] graphite.wikimedia.org
>
> ~Matt Walker
> Wikimedia Foundation
>
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