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Our wiki is running on MediaWiki 1.31.7 and using Collection 1.7.0 (af3a0b8) 14:23, 15 April 2018. The Download as PDF is constantly failing and directing the user to Reading/Web/PDF Functionality which doesn't specifically address the reason for the "Book rendering failed". Reading through Talk:Reading/Web/PDF Functionality doesn't clear up the situation much either. It does seem to indicate there is a new render server available at https://pediapress.com/collector but that doesn't seem to work for non-Wikipedia sites. The existing render server https://tools.pediapress.com/mw-serve/ does seem to still active.

Is the functionality via this extension dead for low traffic sites that don't need or cannot install (i.e shared hosting) their own PDF server?

I have this question too... In my case the progress page stalls without any progress and refreshing the page doesn't seem to help.

Is there a suggested way to debug or to find out what's happening?

Thank you,

Gregg

I have the same as @Peculiar Investor so I think I will ty to have pdf server.

In order to have my pdf server, I follow this very good guide so here is the config.

I run the server on Ubuntu(download via window stores in order to not have the CD) 18.0.4, python 2.7.

so at the step 3 I have this problem , and I try the next step until step 6 and I have another error I think that the step 3 is fatal and not just a nice to have.

root@PO-NSENECHAL:/usr/src/Python-2.7.18#   pip install --trusted-host pypi.pediapress.com -i <nowiki>http://pypi.pediapress.com/simple/</nowiki> --upgrade mwlib.rl

Collecting mwlib.rl

  Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement mwlib.rl (from versions: )

No matching distribution found for mwlib.rl

root@PO-NSENECHAL:/usr/src/Python-2.7.18#  chown mw-serve:mw-serve -R /var/log/mediawiki/

chown: cannot access '/var/log/mediawiki/': No such file or directory

So as you can see the bug come from the command or pediapress.com. Or maybe I do something wrong.

any tips are welcome, thanks.