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Bug 27325 - Feature-Request: Extension to export all articles to a single PDF is missing
Feature-Request: Extension to export all articles to a single PDF is missing
Status: NEW
Product: MediaWiki extensions
Classification: Unclassified
General/Unknown (Other open bugs)
unspecified
All All
: Lowest enhancement (vote)
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Assigned To: Nobody - You can work on this!
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Blocks: 41037
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Reported: 2011-02-11 12:40 UTC by Florian
Modified: 2012-11-09 20:52 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Description Florian 2011-02-11 12:40:23 UTC
Hi,

after searching & testing several hours i reached the following situation:



Current Situation:
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It's seem like there is no single extension allowing an easy export of all articles to a single pdf - while there are several ways to generate pdfs from a collection of articles or single categories.



Extensions i did consider:
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Extension: DumpHTML - working - but due to missing search (html) its not really useable as offside backup

Extension: PDF Export -> broken (see extension discussion/talk page)

Extension: Collection: complex config & requires online access or additional servers - might be a problem for specific setups.

Extension: PDF Book (pdf & html) - works pretty good for single categories - but is missing an option to select ALL articles.



Target:
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A simple way to generate easy readable offsite backups of entire mediawiki installations - in best case the pdf-generation could be triggered from mediawiki itself but as well from cli (i.e. for cron-jobs/script usage)



Ideas:
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I guess it could make sense to tweak Extension:PDFbook - as in theory/right now it should just miss an option to collect all articles. The pdf-generation in general is working already for single categories. 

If that function would be added it would be pretty easy to generate pdf-backups from entire wikis - which might help several people overall.
Comment 1 Andre Klapper 2012-11-09 20:52:10 UTC
This is very likely a WONTFIX if nobody volunteers to implement this.

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