Topic on Talk:Reading/Web/PDF Functionality/Flow

This recent edit to the page suggests that there will be an option to export Wiki markdown instead of PDF. Is this correct? Steelpillow (talk) 17:16, 26 February 2018 (UTC)

If Wiki authors that want to create tailored Open Educational Resources especially generate from Wikiversity or Wikipedia can be very helpful as learning resource (see https://pandoc.org/try ) how the cross-compilation works. Client-side conversion based on wtf_wikipedia.js

So this appears to be about an alternative way for a client to import and convert raw wikitext from individual articles, that is wholly unrelated to the PDF export service and, as far as I can tell, from markdown as well. Steelpillow (talk) 09:43, 28 February 2018 (UTC)

It just shows an option to create the PDF on the client side due to problems of PDF generation on the server side. Of course this work around enables the export of even more formats. If that is not appropriate as recommendation in this discussion, excuse me for being off track.

Gracias! Comprendido.

Felicidades

With Wiki2Reveal there is a rapid prototype for converting the wiki markdown on the client side. See an example:

• Source Article in Wikiversity
• Same Source Article as RevealsJS presentation but converted on-the-fly on the client side by the browser with Wiki2Reveal.

If you want to create PDF on the client side, you can read the wiki markdown and start converting in the browser as runtime environment with existing libraries like https://github.com/MrRio/jsPDF This reduces the load on the server, because just the wiki markdown and the embedded media must be transfered to the client. The server side implementation is available on wmlabs by Dirk Hünniger http://mediawiki2latex.wmflabs.org/ that generates the PDF on the server and delivers the generated PDF to the user. Wiki markdown is converted in LaTeX (that can be done even in the browser) Costly in terms of performance is LaTeX conversion into the PDF. So why not allow the user to perform the final step - if he/she really wants to have a PDF document and the online-wikibook is not possible due to constraints of internet availability in remote areas and e.g. humantarian organisation want to create a tailored WikiBook for capacity building and need to deploy that offline (see tailored WikiBooks for Risk Mitigation) best regards and many thanks for discussing this topic and allowing offline use of Wikipedia and Wikiversity content under CC-BY-SA 3.0 license.