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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