Hi,
I try to use XWiki as a CMS and communications platform for the
student-reps at my university. XWiki seems to be perfect! We would just
need one feature on top of it - a more sophisticated PDF export. We plan
to collect all kinds of Information on our platform and do a lot of
documentation - some of it also has to be available on paper. PDF
Templates would also be great!
Therefore I am also highliy interessted in aggregate PDF's with TOC (as
Stephen Schaub). Plus there should be a non-geek way to achieve such
PDF's. Perhaps like the "clippings"-feature on
IHT.com where you mark
all the articles you are interessted in and they all appear in the
"clippings" dropdown right of the naviation bar.
So here is how I imagine it works (for the user):
1) Mark your articles
2) Go to the "PDF Generation" page
3) (Optionally) bring the articles into your favorite order and choose
the pdf template (Toc/No-Toc, 1 or 2 columns,...)
4) (Optionally) Save your selection for future use.
5) Click on generate
Although I am neither a Java nor XWiki pro I got some XSLT experience
and could help with the templates.
Please tell me what you think an if there is any chance an advanced pdf
generation will be introduced in the future. Or is there another
(external) way to achieve this?
Looking forward to reading your comments!
Thanks,
Sascha Oesterle.