Reading/Web/PDF Rendering

About
Currently rendering pdf articles from Wikipedia pages is handled by extension Collection through a en embedded service called OCG, and it has different issues, especially with tables. The Wikimedia foundation would like to work on enhancing the end result of the rendered pdfs, in a way that meets the community needs. In this page, we are laying out the problem, and our proposed solution, the plan below is tentative, just to give clarity around tasks vs timeline, please feel free to add your comments and suggestions accordingly.

When you click "Download as PDF" on the side menu, a screen similar to the below is displayed, where a the pdf is available for download shortly after the article is ready. The result will be mainly lacking table proper render.

For example, check the rendered pdf for the article on list of country codes which contains a big table, that is not captured at all by the current rendering service.

Technology Alternative
OCG is currently not well supported by the WMF and there are difficulties with Latex that have disabled table rendering in pdfs. Latex is a fairly brittle framework which is not well-suited to our flexible content-types. Furthermore, bugs in OCG or the Collection extension have greatly diminished the 3rd use of OCG (creating books).
 * OCG, which converts wikitext pages to latex-formatted-pdf and plain text. In the past, it has also supported zim, epub and possibly more per above, applies an attractive layout where the print.css has not provided an attractive option when integrated with the collection extension, collates articles selected by a user into books + creates a table of contents. The OCG service basically does the following:
 * 1) Converts wikitext pages to latex-formatted-pdf and plain text. In the past, it has also supported zim, epub and possibly more
 * 2) Per above, applies an attractive layout where the print.css has not provided an attractive option
 * 3) When integrated with the collection extension, collates articles selected by a user into books + creates a table of contents

Please check earlier OCG discussion here and here