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Hi Robert,

this is great news. Is it also possible to add together a few articles
in one pdf? Especially on wikibooks this would be very useful!

Lodewijk

2008/5/7, Robert Arustamyan <robert@blogpaper.com>:
> Hi All,
>
> I'm pleased to announce a new web service.
>
> MediaWiki2PDF - is a free online service, that allows you to generate
> nice looking PDF documents from books found on wikibooks.org. It looks
> through child pages and collects chapters and subchapters into a single,
> well-formatted PDF document. All you have to do, is just enter url of
> the book and press "Enter".
> From recent time service can also generates PDF-s from wikipedia
> articles. It is possible to get PDF in A4/Letter and e-book (suitable
> for e-readers) sized formats.
>
> Visit us at http://blogpaper.com/mediawiki2pdf
>
>
> We hope it will be useful to you.
>
>
>
> Best Regards.
>
> Blogpaper Development Team.
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Hi Effe,


Your feedback is match appreciated.


Yes, it's posible to create a pdf from a few wikibooks articles. We are
also adding new feautures for wikipedia.


Robert


effe iets anders wrote:
> Hi Robert,
>
> this is great news. Is it also possible to add together a few articles
> in one pdf? Especially on wikibooks this would be very useful!
>
> Lodewijk
>
> 2008/5/7, Robert Arustamyan <robert@blogpaper.com>:
>

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Robert Arustamyan wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I'm pleased to announce a new web service.
>
> MediaWiki2PDF - is a free online service, that allows you to generate
> nice looking PDF documents from books found on wikibooks.org. It looks
> through child pages and collects chapters and subchapters into a single,
> well-formatted PDF document. All you have to do, is just enter url of
> the book and press "Enter".
> From recent time service can also generates PDF-s from wikipedia
> articles. It is possible to get PDF in A4/Letter and e-book (suitable
> for e-readers) sized formats.
>
> Visit us at http://blogpaper.com/mediawiki2pdf
>
> We hope it will be useful to you.
>
> Best Regards.
>
> Blogpaper Development Team.

Great!
It would also be very useful at Wikisource.
Can it work for Wikisource?

Yann
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On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 2:23 PM, Yann Forget <yann@forget-me.net> wrote:
> Great!
> It would also be very useful at Wikisource.
> Can it work for Wikisource?

in so far as it works at all, I would assume it probably works at
wikisource too. The only way to tell is to type in the URL of a
wikisource book and see what comes out the other side.

--Andrew Whitworth

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I have created now a pdf of a more normal book (a pdf of the main page
is a nightmare btw, a really good test for complicated templates), and
it mainly prefers simple and easy text.

As I see, it might have some problems with transparent images, they
seem to get a black background. I really like the general content
pages, but maybe it is good to skip all the ToC's of the seperate
pages?

A great way of resolving this is giving the output in an editable
format, so that people can easily remove that kind of things, and
adapt as they like it.

An option you might want to add: o Compile a list of all authors and
add that to the end, together with the license text (in case of
wikipedia: GFDL, in case of nlwikibooks: GFDL & CC-BY-SA)

Maybe this makes things more complicated, but making it editable (odf)
would do much good!

BR, lodewijk

2008/5/7, Andrew Whitworth <wknight8111@gmail.com>:
> On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 2:23 PM, Yann Forget <yann@forget-me.net> wrote:
> > Great!
> > It would also be very useful at Wikisource.
> > Can it work for Wikisource?
>
>
> in so far as it works at all, I would assume it probably works at
> wikisource too. The only way to tell is to type in the URL of a
> wikisource book and see what comes out the other side.
>
>
> --Andrew Whitworth
>
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Yann,


Since Wikisource uses mediawiki markup we can add the feature You
request. We will do it as soon as possible.


Robert

>
> Great!
> It would also be very useful at Wikisource.
> Can it work for Wikisource?

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Andrew,

It wouldn't work, but we are going to add this feature soon.

Robert


Andrew Whitworth wrote:
> On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 2:23 PM, Yann Forget <yann@forget-me.net> wrote:
>> Great!
>> It would also be very useful at Wikisource.
>> Can it work for Wikisource?
>
> in so far as it works at all, I would assume it probably works at
> wikisource too. The only way to tell is to type in the URL of a
> wikisource book and see what comes out the other side.
>
> --Andrew Whitworth
>
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