Export of wiki-Pages to one PDF-Document

[jan.linnenkohl@…]

It would be really nice to have an plugin, that collects all wiki pages and put them into a single PDF-ducument. I don't have an idea, how to handle the structure of the PDF-document. I need this feature to get a mobile version of the wiki pages, so that the people at a custumer can also use the informations stored in the wiki pages.

[Noah Kantrowitz]

It might be slightly simpler to just allow for collecting the Wiki into one big HTML page, and then from this the user could make it a PDF (or print it out, make tarballs, etc)

[anonymous]

But it would be also very nice to get a navigation inside of the PDF, which would be not so easy in one big HTML page, or?

[jornh]

Just saw a pointer to this on the Trac mailing list:

​http://lists.edgewall.com/archive/trac/2005-April/002729.html

It's about 20 lines of python that should generate the 'one big HTML page'. I have not tried it out myself though

[Alec Thomas]

Actually that script only generates a single HTML page from a single Wiki page.

[jouvin@…]

In fact this feature should allow to 'export' an arbitrary set of pages, not just all the wiki pages. And it should be able to take into account pseudo hierarchy of pages (wiki page name containing /).

[liquidblaze@…]

Isn't there already a formatter available for (single page) PDF export? I've seen some sites use it - couldn't that formatter just be modified to output all the pages in a file?

see wwwcherrypy.org/wiki/ for a PDF formatter

[Alec Thomas]

Have a look at trac-ticket:1468 for more information.

[Alec Thomas]

Milestone 0.9.1 deleted

[Trent Apted]

See also ​trac-ticket:2296 (export to LaTeX + pdflatex = much nicer PDF)

[Peter Kropf]

The gumstix wiki allows for the creation of PDF's by providing a list of the wiki pages and allowing the user to pick and choose which should be included. Its one possible way to provide a UI to create PDF files.

​http://www.gumstix.org/tikiwiki/tiki-config_pdf.php?page=Getting+Started

I think it might provide a reasonal initial UI. Thoughts?

[anonymous]

Couldn't the XsltMacro be used for part of this?

Export the wikipage as an XML document and then apply an XSLT (XSL-FO) to create the PDF.

[Noah Kantrowitz]

Reset priority and severity

[James Mills]

I'm wondering wether a plugin can't be written that uses ​pyx.

[Alec Thomas]

PageToPdfPlugin does the job for a single page. The real trick with exporting a set of pages will be how to select the pages, and how to combine them in a useful way.

A solution for the second problem would be to increment the header depth for all headers in all pages, add a level 1 header to each page with the page name, then concatenate them all and render, possibly adding a PageOutline.

eg.

Two pages

FooBar:

= Foo is good =

BarFoo:

= Bar is good =

becomes:

[[PageOutline]]
= FooBar =
== Foo is good ==

= BarFoo =
== Bar is good ==

[nepo@…]

Replying to athomas:

PageToPdfPlugin does the job for a single page. The real trick with exporting a set of pages will be how to select the pages, and how to combine them in a useful way.

A first version could just export a particular wiki tree, if it has been organized using the hierachical wiki feature (like exporting all pages mywiki/wiki/subtopic1/*)

[jwilliams]

I see this as a natural extension to TracNav - since TracNav requires you to identify a TOC page, that is the "master list" of pages that you want to be exported.

Different TOCs would give different renderings of the content.

[Noah Kantrowitz]

See the CombineWikiPlugin. It does this quite nicely.