On Jul 3, 2011, at 2:14 PM, Jean Weber wrote: > On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 04:16, C <smau...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Sun, Jul 3, 2011 at 18:53, Dave Fisher <dave2w...@comcast.net> wrote: >> >> A few example items... the existing/legacy MediaWiki instance is using >> several creative tweaks such as (not an exhaustive list.. just a few): >> >> - PDF and ODT export. Confluence can do PDF, but cannot do ODT.. >> only MS Word DOC format (a significant issue in my view for an OOo Wiki... > > Even worse, AFAICT Confluence cannot export more than one wiki page at > a time to MS Word DOC format, which would make compiling a whole book > in that format a lot more difficult.
It is very cumbersome, but it is possible to export all or part of a space to PDF in Confluence - The function is found on the Advanced page. > >> Export to PDF and ODT is something a lot of people use >> for the OOo Docs - especially the Basic and Developer's Guides. >> [...] >> As for the number of pages... start with the big one.. the Developer's >> Guide. This doc alone is approximately 1000 Wiki pages ... Like >> the other manuals in the existing/legacy OOo Wiki, it uses a >> combination of nested templates and various extensions to manage the >> subpages as a book. >> >> Add to the list, the Basic Guide, the Reference Lists, and the >> FAQs/HowTos, plus whatever Doc pages have been translated into >> Russian, French, Spanish, German etc etc, and you've got a whole lot >> of pages that need to be migrated, managed, validated, etc. > > Also all the user guides that are in wiki format contribute a lot of > pages. Some of those can (and probably should) be dropped (anything > for OOo 2.x, for example) but that may not make a significant dent in > the total. We could keep the PDFs and ODTs for the v2.x guides for > historical archives, but dump the wiki pages. Good. Regards, Dave > >> >> Frank Peters also raised this point a couple of weeks ago... so I'm >> not the only one raising a little white flag and saying this part of >> the website migration is not going to be as easy as migrating basic MW >> content. :-) > > --Jean > Jean Hollis Weber > Co-Lead, OpenOffice.org Documentation Project
