Offer PDF export of entire wikisource proofread books
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	Alex_brollo
	Nov 5 2017, 3:32 PM

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Dealing with proofread wikisource book, I think that Index pages could be exported too with a specific tool, saving original pagination of the edition (t.i. converting individual nsPage pages into individual pdf pages).

The result could be, more or less, the same that can be viewed by it.source "viewer":
Don Chisciotte

I presume that conversion could be much simpler than the conversion of ns0 pages, and that it turned out as a much more faithful digitalization of source edition, while ns0 transcription is something like a "new edition".

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Status	Subtype	Assigned	Task
Open		None	T179790 Offer PDF export of entire wikisource proofread books
Open	Feature	None	T28448 Make Collection extension to automatically create collections for existing books on Wikibooks/Wikisources
Open	Feature	None	T17071 Wikibooks/Wikisource needs means to associate separate pages with books
Declined		None	T52386 Create basic tool for reading books (group of pages)
Resolved		None	T53841 Navigation bars do not properly load until the JSON structure is re-saved.
Resolved		None	T52388 Create a function to make the handling of the reading interface simplest
Resolved		None	T54331 Navigation bars appear in diff view
Declined		None	T54340 Allow non-Gregorian dates for publication date.
Declined		None	T54343 Invalidate navbar cache when JSON is edited
Resolved		Legoktm	T54347 Use an IContextSource instead of globals
Resolved		None	T54435 Find previous/next links in the navbar more efficiently
Resolved		None	T52672 Reading interface need fallback for non JS users
Resolved		None	T52989 Add view frontend to the JSON block on Book: pages.
Declined		None	T54816 Allow users to add links to the metadata
Declined		None	T54823 Link the title in the JSON frontend to the main book page
Resolved		None	T54806 Add anchor to JS fallback metadata and content links
Declined		None	T52679 Implement keyboard navigation for Bookmanagerv2
Resolved		Legoktm	T56304 JSON view frontend is broken
Resolved		None	T52759 Change navigation bar images to use local files
Resolved		None	T52762 Use variables to show/hide items in the navigation bar
Resolved		None	T52767 Use html or xml class to write the navigation bar
Resolved		None	T52957 Populate metadata, chapterlist, and prev/next in navbar from the JSON structure.
Resolved		None	T52674 Create an example JSON structure to be used in the navigation bar
Declined		None	T52958 Validate a book's JSON block against a JSON schema.
Declined		None	T54416 Add support for section indentation (subsections, etc.) in JSON schema
Declined		None	T54470 Pull the JSON schema from a local page
Resolved		None	T52959 Pull the JSON schema from the Meta page.
Invalid		None	T53062 JSON validator still allows properties that aren't in the schema if they're inside the sections array
Declined		None	T53063 "pages" property does not allow for integers and arrays of integers
Resolved		None	T52988 Add i18n to JSON validation
Resolved		None	T53187 Allow pages that do not follow the "book/chapter name" syntax to be included in the navigation.
Resolved		None	T53193 Add namespace configuration variable
Resolved		None	T54821 Provide a link to the JSON (view) page from the navbar dropdowns
Resolved		None	T55288 Use more descriptive title attribute for read/edit buttons in navbar dropdowns
Resolved		None	T53194 Localize the publication date in the metadata
Resolved		None	T53196 Fix the appearance of wrapped text in the navigation bar
Resolved		None	T53195 Allow metadata drop down to play nicely with RTL languages
Declined		None	T53240 Allow more structure in the navigation bar table of contents dropdown optionally
Resolved		None	T53241 Right arrow is still displayed on the last section of a book
Resolved		None	T52691 Add navigation bar fallback for users who can't view images or have different CSS
Resolved		None	T53258 Add title attribute for the data and toc icons
Resolved		None	T53256 No CSS loads when the browser's JS is disabled
Declined		None	T53257 Improve UX in chapter dropdown menu for books with lots of chapters
Declined		None	T52670 Load dropdown menu only after it is clicked
Declined		None	T53384 Limit the number of sections loaded at once into the table of contents dropdown.
Declined		None	T53386 Provide ability to search for a chapter that's not displayed in the dropdown
Resolved		None	T55105 Make the extension function completely independently from the schema
Resolved		None	T55164 Add variable to enable/disable the navigation bars
Resolved		None	T55289 Use more descriptive title attribute for prev/next buttons in navigation bar

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Alex_brollo created this task.Nov 5 2017, 3:32 PM

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Reedy added a project: Collection.Nov 5 2017, 8:37 PM

@Alex_brollo: What is the current situation after which steps performed, and what is the expectation? Following https://mediawiki.org/wiki/How_to_report_a_bug is welcome, and editing the task summary to summarize either a bug or a requested feature ("PDF export of wikisource proofread books" is neither, as the "Scarica come PDF" option exists on the page that you linked to). Thanks a lot! :)

What I suggest is, to export all the nsPage pages linked with nsIndex page, saving original pagination and using Index page as "an index" only, t.i. to build a PDF of the whole book.

Presently, the option "Scarica come PDF" downloads only a pdf version of Index page.

Aklapper renamed this task from PDF export of wikisource proofread books to Offer PDF export of entire wikisource proofread books.Nov 6 2017, 10:51 AM

Liuxinyu970226 subscribed.Nov 7 2017, 4:19 AM

Nemo_bis added a subtask: T28448: Make Collection extension to automatically create collections for existing books on Wikibooks/Wikisources.Nov 7 2017, 7:47 AM

In the meantime, I'll try a do.it.yourself approach exploring, then using wkhtmltopdf by python, just to get a "it can be done" first result.

page for page:
- download html
- edit it removing/editing what needs to be removed/edited
- convert into a pdf page
- append to global pdf

it.source nsIndex pages have a standardized Summary field, that can be used to get a pdf index page.

Suggestions about other command-line html to pdf conversion applications, running under windows 10, are welcome!

Alex_brollo updated the task description. (Show Details)Nov 7 2017, 9:05 AM

Candalua added projects: All-and-every-Wikisource, ProofreadPage.Nov 8 2017, 6:41 PM

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This isn't clear to me what you are trying to achieve, and how it would be different from downloading a PDF from the main namespace

Are you talking about proactively generating PDFs of all "proofread once" works and storing them?
or
Are you talking about the ability to create PDFs from the index: ns page of all "proofread once" (minm.) works?
or
Are you talking about putting corrected text page back along-side/overlaying images in a PDF format?

In T179790#3745996, @Billinghurst wrote:

This isn't clear to me what you are trying to achieve, and how it would be different from downloading a PDF from the main namespace

I'm simply suggesting to build an alternative pdf exporting tool, similar to the running one, but mirroring original pagination of source edition. Often I feel that page structure/page design/page balance of text/illustrations should be saved as far as possible into exported pdf just ad they are saved into nsPage html.

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