From: http://kerravonsen.dreamwidth.org/ Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2011 12:46:27 +0000 (-0400) Subject: response to query X-Git-Url: http://git.tremily.us/?p=ikiwiki.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=852e28497b7a9994f03d3b0abfcb7cfd88798138 response to query --- diff --git a/doc/todo/pdf_output.mdwn b/doc/todo/pdf_output.mdwn index 0de0776cf..bf30d0b7d 100644 --- a/doc/todo/pdf_output.mdwn +++ b/doc/todo/pdf_output.mdwn @@ -5,5 +5,10 @@ Note that for example dokuwiki has a [[nice plugin|http://danjer.doudouke.org/te > I've actually written one, it's just not publicly released. You can check it out from the "experimental" branch of my ikiplugins githup repo. It's called "html2pdf" and it depends on the static version of wkhtmltopdf rather than requiring a whole LaTeX setup. It's only been used on Ubuntu, so I can't say what problems there might be on other setups, but it works for me. It's not properly documented; I'd appreciate some help with that. > -- [[KathrynAndersen]] -> Thanks, I downloaded the git-repro and did `sudo cp html2pdf.pm /usr/share/perl5/IkiWiki/Plugin/` then I added html2pdf to the addplugins line in my setup-file (`mywiki.setup`) as well a new line `html2pdf_pages=>"/*",`. Then I did `sudo ikiwiki --setup mywiki.setup`. However there is no button or something like that which let's me create the pdf's -> -- [[micheal]] +>> Thanks, I downloaded the git-repro and did `sudo cp html2pdf.pm /usr/share/perl5/IkiWiki/Plugin/` then I added html2pdf to the addplugins line in my setup-file (`mywiki.setup`) as well a new line `html2pdf_pages=>"/*",`. Then I did `sudo ikiwiki --setup mywiki.setup`. However there is no button or something like that which let's me create the pdf's +>> -- [[micheal]] + +>>> That is because they are created automatically as part of the page-build process. That's what the "html2pdf_pages" option is for: it defines which pages have PDFs generated from them. If a PDF is generated for page "foo", then the PDF itself will be in "foo/foo.pdf". + +>>> I also notice you didn't mention installing wkhtmltopdf - it won't create PDFs without that! +>>> -- [[KathrynAndersen]]