Re: Wiki-To-Print Extension Nitpicks

Their tech team seems very responsive to issues. You might open reports
in their bug tracker on http://code.pediapress.com/wiki/wiki so they
will be sure to get noticed.

-Mike

On Wed, 5 Nov 2008 12:48:57 -0500, "Andrew Whitworth"
<[email protected]> said:
> I've been using this wiki-to-print extension today, and it's
> wonderful! However, I have come up with a few details that I would
> like to mention and hopefully have addressed in the future. Is this
> list a good place for these points, or should I open bugzilla tickets,
> or what?
> 
> 1) The connection to PediaPress seems unreliable. Clicking "Order Book
> from PediaPress" returns an error about as often as it succeeds. I
> will try to record more data about this failure mode next time I see
> it
> 2) The books generated by PediaPress look amazing (I've just ordered
> my first one, so I will tell you how it looks when it gets here).
> However, I would like to be able to adjust the cover image, and
> possibly list multiple editors on the cover
> 3) In the generated PDF files, at the top of the GFDL license, there
> is a shortcut link to "WP:GFDL". This shortcut won't work on
> en.wikibooks. We either need to localize this to say "WB:GFDL", or we
> need to provide a fully-qualified URL to a place where a person can
> actually find the GFDL.
> 4) In addition to the GFDL, I would like to be able to specify
> additional boiler-plate preface and appendix text, such as an "About
> Wikibooks" page that will be automatically included in all books
> (perhaps as checkbox option, if some people don't want it). This way
> when/if we start to distribute/sell these books, recipients will know
> what the book is, where to find the electronic copy of it, how to edit
> and improve it, etc. I'm working on a page now (at
> [[Wikibooks:Collections Preface]]) that people can include manually
> for now, but having to manually include this page in every collection
> we make will be annoying.
> 5) PDF rendering times, especially for some of the larger books I've
> tried (>200 pages) are very slow. Is this an acceptable server load?
> 6) I've noticed problems with rendering nested list structures, like:
> 
> *First
> *:Note about the first (this renders wrong)
> *Second
> *:Note about the second (this also renders wrong).
> 
> 
> These are some of the biggest issues I've seen so far, and they're
> very small! I look forward to seeing how things progress on the
> development of this extension.
> 
> --Andrew Whitworth
> 
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