Topic on Extension talk:ElectronPdfService/Archive

This extension will still need to take into account the crazy horizontal (and vertical) tables that editors seem to create. Currently it seems to truncate the rest of the results, just like regular browsers fail.

A reliable alternative is probably to either push them into an appendix at the bottom of the table with landscape enabled for it, or alternatively try (and probably fail sometimes) to render it as landscape within the article. A long term solution is to maybe add a tracking category to highlight these huge tables and have editors fix them, maybe "Category:Nutty tables".

Examples:

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Periodic_table_(large_cells)&oldid=749013106 https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_United_States_presidential_election_results_by_state&oldid=753848943

This highlights an interesting issue... Should probably be possible to enable it to view old revisions of pages, /page/pdf/{title}/{revision}{/tid}. That would be really nice and a good improvement compared to the earlier service.

Actually, it seems the old service already supported old revisions, so that part is not feature compatible yet.

It might also be a good idea to hide those huge links within infoboxes and tables, and render them at the bottom of the page with some sort of reference to them.

Things like this are going to be problematic. This service can do no more than the print function of your browser right now. Any additional features that we want, will have to be implemented either in electron, or by creating an 'alternative' view that the service can print.

Alternative views also mean more problems however. It's a bit of a tradeoff.