Hi Kristof,
On 16 Jun 2014 at 16:41:09, De Wel, Kristof
(kristof.dewel@hp.com(mailto:kristof.dewel@hp.com)) wrote:
Hi All,
We are looking to export a set of XWiki pages to a single document (PDF)
According to
http://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-1289 an improvement request was created
in 2007 to add a UI for exporting multiple pages as PDF. Anno 2014 this request is still
'Open'.
We turned my attention to various extensions :
*
http://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Extension/Multipage+Export+Appli…
*
http://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Extension/MultipagePdfExport+App…
*
http://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Extension/PDF+Export+Collection+…
None of these extensions work with the XWiki version we've installed.(5.4.4)
Would be nice if you could report what doesn’t work, it’s probably not much to fix.
It’s strange that a recent one such
as
http://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Extension/PDF+Export+Collection+… doesn’t
work.
Does anybody have a tip for me how I can achieve the
export in a somewhat elegant manner ? (Following works but is not practical considering
the amount of pages to be exported:
http://server/xwiki/bin/export/Space/Page?format=pdf&pages=Admin.Page_A…)
Does anybody know whether "XWIKI-1289" will ever make it to XWiki''s
roadmap?
Yes it will. It’s been on the roadmap several times in the past already and because other
stuff took precedence it’s not been implemented yet but it’s getting high on our todo
list. Now my hunch is that it’s been postponed because there are alternatives (the 5-6
extensions that do this) so people are not blocked.
If they don’t work their authors need to fix them but first you need to tell them what
doesn’t work for you :)
<aside>
BTW, there’s a way to speed up implementing a feature, it’s by sponsoring some devs to
work on that feature. The page
at
http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/Support#HProfessionalSupport also shows a list
of companies active in the development of the XWiki project and I’m sure you could contact
them to sponsor the development of the multipage export for example, if that’s something
important for you.
</aside>
Thanks
-Vincent
Thanks ,
Kristof