All rdf2latex books: Book rendering failed: There was an error while attempting to render your book
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	Sep 26 2014, 4:41 AM

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Seems to be happening for all rdf2latex PDF books but not other formats. I tried:

After several seconds the page loads and I'm redirected to bookcmd=rendering which contains the error. (Incidentally, the returnto doens't work: instead I get "Return to Main Page.")

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URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Book&bookcmd=rendering&return_to=Book%3AA+Thermodynamic+Look+at+Engines&collection_id=4bd3ad731f926f5e46eaa5876d632e9169fff63a&writer=rdf2latex

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• bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Needs Triage.Nov 22 2014, 3:59 AM

• bzimport added a project: OCG-PDF-renderer.

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Nemo_bis created this task.Sep 26 2014, 4:41 AM

Oh, now it proceeds to rendering again.

• Elitre subscribed.Nov 26 2014, 10:52 AM

I think I get this message on any Wikipedia now when trying to "Download as PDF".

I think I get this message on any Wikipedia now when trying to "Download as PDF".

Not the same issue. https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incident_documentation/20141126-ocg

Might be, but " Book rendering failed: There was an error while attempting to render your book" was indeed the message I got. Thanks for the link.

The user @Tamiel reported the same error message on Portuguese Wikibooks (and https://lists.okfn.org/pipermail/okfn-br/2015-February/005227.html):
https://pt.wikibooks.org/wiki/T%C3%B3pico:Wikilivros_Discuss%C3%A3o:Portal_comunit%C3%A1rio/Bug,_export_Epub
It happens for both formats:

That's not the same issue. EPUB and ODT formats are disabled, why do you expect those links to work?

The EPUB and ODT versions are still linked from templates, such as
https://pt.wikibooks.org/wiki/Template:Livro_gravado
https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Livro_gravado
https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Libro_guardado
and end users have no way to know that they are disabled

In fact, at least the error message should be different, or new users will keep getting confused by these errors, and thinking Wikibooks's software is not good enough to be used for their purposes.

Reedy removed a subscriber: • wikibugs-l-list.Dec 10 2015, 11:00 PM

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Jdforrester-WMF added a project: OCG-PDFRenderer.Apr 8 2016, 2:50 PM

Jdforrester-WMF removed a project: OCG-PDF-renderer.

As already announced in Tech News, OfflineContentGenerator (OCG) will not be used anymore after October 1st, 2017 on Wikimedia sites. OCG will be replaced by Electron. You can read more on mediawiki.org.

Declining this task as "The Wikimedia Foundation's book rendering service has been withdrawn", plus OCG has been dead for years and superseded by Proton and Electron-PDFs on Wikimedia servers. If there is still an issue with currently available PDF export on Wikimedia servers, then please file a new ticket with updated information and steps to reproduce. Thanks!

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