Hi,
I propose to use wkhtmltopdf to get PDFs fast. I wrote a Java program to demonstrate that:
https://sourceforge.net/p/wb2pdf/git/ci/master/tree/src/Tachyon.java
the demo run on the following book
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book:Ancient_Egyptian_Titulary
sudo apt-get install wkhtmltopdf javac Tachyon.java time java Tachyon real 0m5.013s user 0m3.509s sys 0m0.146s evince output.pdf
Yours Dirk
Looks good. I do not have time to test it myself, but it is crystal clear that the WMF need to wake up and smell the coffee.
Your main code may be written in haskell, but how is that worse than a proprietary volunteer working on a (very) occasional basis and keeping their code closed source?
I just found out that there seems to be a problem with wkhtmltopdf on large documents. I also found that you can easy solve it by directly using qtwebkit from c++. I put the sources online here. https://sourceforge.net/p/wb2pdf/git/ci/master/tree/src/qt/ . I was able to create PDF of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book:3D_bone_printing within a few minutes.
