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@@ -2,8 +2,21 @@ 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 <a href="https://github.com/rubykat/ikiplugins">ikiplugins githup repo</a>.  It's called "html2pdf" and it depends on the static version of <a href="http://code.google.com/p/wkhtmltopdf/">wkhtmltopdf</a> 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 <a href="https://github.com/rubykat/ikiplugins">ikiplugins githup repo</a>.  It's called "html2pdf" and it depends on the static version of <a href="http://wkhtmltopdf.org">wkhtmltopdf</a> 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]]
 
-> 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
->
+>> 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]]
+
+>>> That is because they are created automatically as part of the page-build process.  That's what the "html2pdf_pages" option is for: it defines which pages have PDFs generated from them.  If a PDF is generated for page "foo", then the PDF itself will be in "foo/foo.pdf".
+
+>>> I also notice you didn't mention installing wkhtmltopdf - it won't create PDFs without that!
+>>> -- [[KathrynAndersen]]
+
+>>>> Yes, wkhtmltopdf is installed and works, however there are no pdf-files in my /var/www/myiki directory or in scrdir. 
+
+>>>>> Have you tried running it with "verbose" turned on, and noting the output?  That could give some clues.
+>>>>> And no, the PDFs are not placed in the source dir, only in the destination dir.
+>>>>> -- [[KathrynAndersen]]
+
+**Edit (17.02.2012)**: I have put an extended version of the question on webmasters.stackexchange: [[http://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/24905/run-external-application-on-markdown-source-in-ikiwiki]] , perhaps someone of the ikiwiki programmers is intersted in having this feature too...