X-Git-Url: http://git.vanrenterghem.biz/git.ikiwiki.info.git/blobdiff_plain/1fc3f034191d3eec78b4d5da343e282092a221be..4e77f22f48222ec1493f0b2052fdba09379206f0:/doc/todo/pdf_output.mdwn diff --git a/doc/todo/pdf_output.mdwn b/doc/todo/pdf_output.mdwn index a0f324054..c176f1939 100644 --- a/doc/todo/pdf_output.mdwn +++ b/doc/todo/pdf_output.mdwn @@ -2,9 +2,11 @@ Some time ago there was a [[question|http://ikiwiki.info/forum/how_to_get_nice_p Note that for example dokuwiki has a [[nice plugin|http://danjer.doudouke.org/tech/dokutexit]] which converts the wiki page to latex and then to pdf and you can customize the latex-preamble. -> I've actually written one, it's just not publicly released. You can check it out from the "experimental" branch of my ikiplugins githup repo. It's called "html2pdf" and it depends on the static version of wkhtmltopdf rather than requiring a whole LaTeX setup. It's only been used on Ubuntu, so I can't say what problems there might be on other setups, but it works for me. It's not properly documented; I'd appreciate some help with that. +> I've actually written one, it's just not publicly released. You can check it out from the "experimental" branch of my ikiplugins githup repo. It's called "html2pdf" and it depends on the static version of wkhtmltopdf rather than requiring a whole LaTeX setup. It's only been used on Ubuntu, so I can't say what problems there might be on other setups, but it works for me. It's not properly documented; I'd appreciate some help with that. > -- [[KathrynAndersen]] +>> kathryn: wkhtmltopdf is based on webkit (qtwebkit). it effectively does a sort-of "i am a browser, i am going to print this page for you, oh look, you don't actually have a screen, i'll just output the file conveniently for you" thing. as such, the dependencies are MASSIVE. i just tried installing wkhtmltopdf on a debian server: it required pulling in x11 libraries, font configs, QT5, libxml2, 30+ other dependencies, pulling in over ONE HUNDRED sub and sub-dependencies - the works. absolutely NO chance - whatsoever - that i am going to put a public-facing server at risk or waste resources with such a nightmare waiting to happen, particularly one that is activated by a web service. latex on the other hand, despite being likely much larger, i can tolerate. it has "class" and history, being developed in the 70s by donald knuth - i.e. it was *not* developed by apple (ripping off the KDE KHTMLPart team's work, years ago) and does *not* depend on a whole bunch of crap such as qt. qt is a *GUI* toolkit, what am i gonna do installing that on a *server* for god's sake?? :) tex. donald knuth. that's pedigree. + >> Thanks, I downloaded the git-repro and did `sudo cp html2pdf.pm /usr/share/perl5/IkiWiki/Plugin/` then I added html2pdf to the addplugins line in my setup-file (`mywiki.setup`) as well a new line `html2pdf_pages=>"/*",`. Then I did `sudo ikiwiki --setup mywiki.setup`. However there is no button or something like that which let's me create the pdf's >> -- [[micheal]]