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[[User:FND]] inquired this morning about the old [[Open Office Export]] which is not really in a useable state, but it prompted me to have a bit of a look around for current MediaWiki article exporting options. I soon found [http://www.htmldoc.org HTMLDOC] which, while not specific to MediaWiki, is able to convert HTML to PDF quite well, and is a well established project.
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A user inquired this morning about the old [[Open Office Export]] which is not really in a useable state, but it prompted me to have a bit of a look around for current MediaWiki article exporting options. I soon found [http://www.htmldoc.org HTMLDOC] which, while not specific to MediaWiki, is able to convert HTML to PDF quite well, and is a well established project.
  
 
It was extremely easy to install on Debian using ''apt-get'' (I've added it to [[Debian Post Install]]), and their documentation is very good too which allowed me to integrate it into our XmlWiki environment in only a few minutes. The transform created to call the ''htmldoc'' command is [[pdf-export.php]] and is attached to the [[view]] event of an article via an XPath query in the URL of the export link in the toolbox.
 
It was extremely easy to install on Debian using ''apt-get'' (I've added it to [[Debian Post Install]]), and their documentation is very good too which allowed me to integrate it into our XmlWiki environment in only a few minutes. The transform created to call the ''htmldoc'' command is [[pdf-export.php]] and is attached to the [[view]] event of an article via an XPath query in the URL of the export link in the toolbox.
 
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Revision as of 03:52, 25 January 2007

PDF export added to toolbox

A user inquired this morning about the old Open Office Export which is not really in a useable state, but it prompted me to have a bit of a look around for current MediaWiki article exporting options. I soon found HTMLDOC which, while not specific to MediaWiki, is able to convert HTML to PDF quite well, and is a well established project.

It was extremely easy to install on Debian using apt-get (I've added it to Debian Post Install), and their documentation is very good too which allowed me to integrate it into our XmlWiki environment in only a few minutes. The transform created to call the htmldoc command is pdf-export.php and is attached to the view event of an article via an XPath query in the URL of the export link in the toolbox.