Jean Hollis Weber wrote: > 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.
Inside Sun we're using a direct system (SGML->PDF) that works really well. I would like to give it a chance to see what we can come up with. To be honest, many of the PDFs created "by hand" are nor very compelling either. A last resort would always be to produce ODF, and export to PDF from there after fine-tuning the layout. > 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. We will run into problems syncing wiki with ODF then. > No-- don't anyone tell me about scripts for automatic indexing: the > results are not acceptable. But we could think of a way of keeping index entries in the wiki. An easy way would be to use spans around index terms. There is a way, it's just software Frank -- Frank Peters, Documentation Project Co-Lead The OOo Documentation Project: SIGN UP - PARTICIPATE - CONTRIBUTE IT'S FREE! NO OBLIGATIONS! http://documentation.openoffice.org http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
