Re: News about PDF generation
Robert Arustamyan <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.org.wikimedia.textbook |
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Hello, > Fantastic! > > I noticed that some images in the Knoppix books (especially > screenshots) are actually the thumbnail images. They even have the > little "zoom" icon below. I think you should use the full-size images, > as PDFs are often generated for printing and could really benefit from > higher resolution. Since using full-size images would increads both > bandwidth usage and file size considerably, it should probably not be > used on the ebook reader mode (which I'll appreaciate, owning an iRex > Iliad:-). > We will see if it all right for letter-size PDFs to include bigger images. If yes we'll change that as soon as possible. > Also, congratulations on your good non-ASCII handling (testing: > "Modern Greek"). > Thank you, it wasn't the easiest part :) > For wikipedia articles, maybe you would consider using a textbox (one > article per line)? We could add sone JavaScript "shopping basket" > goodie to Wikipedia and have people collect articles for a topic and > get them PDFed.. I like this idea. I'm going to implement that in the nearest releases. Also I would like to thank you for your great ideas and feedback. Regards, Robert