Fantastic !! +100 :-) -Sudhanwa
On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 2:17 PM, Srikanth Lakshmanan <srik....@gmail.com>wrote: > Hello all, > > Most of know the "Download as PDF" feature is not usable on Indic wikis > with Collection Extension due to issues in PDF generation with complex > scripts. While we hope this gets fixed, in the meantime, we can provide > something that's more usable to users. Aamaachu, a Tamil Wikipedia reader > and free software contributor suggested[1] instead of showing "Download as > PDF" (which downloads an unusable PDF), the link could be "Download as ODT" > and people who want to take content offline could atleast read them > properly. (MS Office 2007 supports opening ODT files as well). I had filed > a bug[2] for the same and all Tamil Wiki projects now show "Download as > ODT" on the portlet. Please consider filing similar bugs for your Indic > Wiki project making the experience more "usable". Of Course once complex > script rendering in PDF is supported, we can always change / add one more > option to list PDF. > > Thank you. > > [1] http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikita-l/2012-May/000107.html > [2] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/37154 > > -- > Regards > Srikanth.L > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimediaindia-l mailing list > Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l > > -- ~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~! web: www.sudhanwa.com blog: www.sudhanwa.in Twitter: sudhanwa Check on FB, Linkedin for more.
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