Topic on Extension talk:Pdf Export

I think it would be good to have some parameters to further control the standard behaviour of this extension.

1. A parameter to set the text to be shown in the header
2. A parameter to set the text to be shown in the footer
3. A parameter to set the standard paper format, e.g. letter or A4
4. A parameter to snow the advanced options i. e. document restrictions (password protection, allow modification etc.) to users on Special:Pdfexport or not

The default paper size is controlled by the MediaWiki:Pdf_size_default system message so you can change that to A4 instead of Letter if you like. I'll add the others to the todo list. Thanks for the requirements.

I knew that there must already have been a possibility to control the paper format. I documented this on the extension's page. Thank you for considering the other suggestions. Cheers

Controlling the header and footer text is an absolute must before we can deploy this tool, otherwise awesome work!

Also wanted to add to the request list: ability to mark page breaks so you can control exactly what goes on which page when you print the pdf.

I added it to the list. I really need to get some other developers working on this. I don't really have the time these days to add large new features.

I'd really like to see all the options in htmldoc exposed in the Special Page, but in particular --book. Also, though I guess this is more a question for htmldoc, I would like loseless reduction of oversize images so that I can zoom into the image on the.pdf.

It would be nice if you could control the page size/margins. When printing from some skins, they will overprint page titles on top of standard print web pages headers and footers. I'd like to keep the standard headers and footers and use the headings and titles produced by skins.

A simple solution might be simply to reduce the top and bottom margins of the pdfexport output so that it doesn't overwrite web page headers and footers produced by apache or browser settings.