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

On 18 Nov 2018, at 11:26, Anca Luca <lucaa(a)xwiki.com> wrote: Hello all, as promised, the pull request is now merged (for 10.10-rc-1) and documented in the release notes for users. Anca On Sun, Oct 21, 2018 at 8:58 PM Anca Luca <lucaa(a)xwiki.com> wrote: > 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 >> >>