The existing extension (created by pediapress<http://code.pediapress.com/wiki/wiki>) will create a PDF from a collection of wiki pages in a format appropriate to being printed as a book. I'm guessing the settings could be tweaked to provide for different output formats, landscape images with backgrounds and bullet points for example, but not by default or that I've been able to find easily. This would be one area I'd be interested in improving. The plugin to the Eclipse IDE <http://www.eclipse.org/> is something different that is not yet integrated with MediaWiki in any way. It does have some things that I am fairly sure wouldn't be easy to impliment in the existing structure such a the realtime preview of what your presentation will look like. video demo <http://blip.tv/file/1684174/> Pulling the plugin out of Eclipse and into something more accessible to educators is my a second area of exploration.
Hope that helps clarify things, ScottGeoffrey On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 2:26 AM, john stampe <jwsta...@yahoo.com> wrote: > I am confused somewhat here whether we are talking about a presentation PDF > (which supports some slideshow options) or standard PDF. > > John > > ------------------------------ > *From:* Jim Tittsler <jtitts...@gmail.com> > *To:* wikieducator@googlegroups.com > *Sent:* Thursday, March 5, 2009 2:57:34 AM > *Subject:* [WikiEducator] Re: Slideshow built from MediaWiki syntax > > > On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 05:41, Scott Newson <scott.g.new...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Second, there seems to be some similarity in roles/functionality of this > > tool and the Download-to-PDF function. As such, I'd really like to gain a > > better understanding of how the to-PDF extention on WE works. I've google > a > > couple terms, but have only come up with instructions for installing the > > extention into wikis, and nothing on how it's built. Who would I talk to > to > > find out more about the to-PDF extention? > > The Collection extension (now renamed to Book extension) and the > associated mwlib tools are being developed by PediaPress. > http://code.pediapress.com/wiki/wiki > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
