Re: [xwiki-devs] Slightly improved default pdf export look and feel

Hello Vincent, done, I attached the same page exported with the previous export, for comparison. On Sun, Oct 21, 2018 at 12:41 AM Vincent Massol <vincent(a)massol.net> wrote: > Hi Anca, > > Thanks for working on this. > > I wanted to quickly check it out so I went to the jira issue. What would > have been nice would have been to have two 2 PDF exports (one before and > one after), or simply 2 screenshots. Just to see visually what the changes > you made are looking like. But if you don’t have the time for this, don’t > worry, we can work with the text/PR. However, if you had some screenshots, > it could go in the Release notes to show the improvements to the user. > > Thanks > -Vincent > > > On 21 Oct 2018, at 01:50, Anca Luca <lucaa(a)xwiki.com> wrote: > > > > Hello devs, > > > > I've whipped up quickly a couple of changes to the default PDF export of > > the XWiki platform, to try to make it look a little nicer. > > I created the issue here https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-15761 and > the > > pull request here https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/pull/900 . > > I would like to merge that into master unless somebody has something > > against it, so please speak up now. > > > > Longer story: > > I know that "nicer" is a subjective term, and that a lot more can be > done > > to improve this default PDF export. My idea was that the current > defaults > > we have (for the font family, for example, or the information we > display in > > the pdf header/footer and the style associated) are not the result of an > > actual studied choice, iirc they are just defaults that were set like > that > > in the first version of that export and never changed. Thus, I don't see > > why we couldn't slightly change these defaults (without changing the > > information displayed or risking regressions) to have a slightly better > > looking default PDF, while still allowing all customizations just they > way > > they worked before. > > These modifications are not blocking nor replacing in any way the more > > serious improvements that can be done on the PDF export, they're just > > slightly improving the current defaults. > > > > Best regards, > > Anca > >