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Ready for single-page PDF Render Function

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ChEbama87 (talkcontribs)

I am very interested in the single-page PDF render function!! This is of great importance to me and several of my friends. We have been reading about this and trying the button offered on the main pages. I love Open Source !! I have been using Open Source operating systems and tools since 1995. I helped the "fight" for the opening-up of what is now FireFox. This is directed toward PediaPress: There are many advantages to going Open Source. I know RedHat has made a LOT of money, even before the $34 billion IBM purchase.

Steelpillow (talkcontribs)

I have found that my Firefox browser makes a better job of rendering single articles than the current Wikipedia renderer. The content is *exactly* the same, with the extraneous wrapper and other in-page unprintables stripped out, but it is more cleanly laid out by Firefox. (Be warned that at the time of writing, many Firefox add-ons have been disabled for the last couple of days, while a fix for a security certificate blunder is sought).

I begin to wonder whether adopting and supporting their rendering engine might not be a better route that constantly reinventing unsatisfactory ones.

Dirk Hünniger (talkcontribs)

yes, might be a good idea. Especially since it is an open source one and the Mozilla foundation tries to keep it open source. But if you prefer something commercial you could also use http://www.unipublishing.com/wb2pdf/ . But of course it is much more fun if you develop one yourself.

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