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[[File:mwlib.png|frame|A single article or collection of pages can be output in a variety of formats; on-demand]]

Books (Collections is the formal software name, Books is the more User-friendly feature name) allows you to export any content you want from the wiki into formats more suitable for offline reading, sharing, printing etc.

Books is a feature of this wiki, added by [[mw:Extension:Collection]] which in turn relies on a host of other goodies such as Python's [http://pypi.python.org/pypi/setuptools setuptools], [http://pythonware.com/products/pil/ Imaging Library]<ref>sudo yum install python-imaging or sudo apt-get install python-imaging should do the trick, but make sure you have a proper python</ref>, and a whole render server which is supplied by PediaPress. Because of the Python dependencies, you should make sure you have a proper Python, which at the time of this writing <ref>~~~~</ref> means 2.6 or 2.7 (maybe later a 3.x version?)

== Users ==

* http://code.pediapress.com/wiki/wiki/WikiToPDF

== Installation ==

To get the MediaWiki Document server going locally, follow the guide on pediapress.com

<source lang="bash">cdmkdir -p $HOME/lib/python2.7# edit .bashrc to alias python to python2.7 (already installed on system)MYENV=WIKIwget http://peak.telecommunity.com/dist/virtual-python.pypython virtual-python.py --no-site-packageswget http://peak.telecommunity.com/dist/ez_setup.pysudo python ez_setup.pysudo easy_install virtualenvvirtualenv --no-site-packages $MYENVcd $MYENVsource ~/WIKI/bin/activate./bin/pip install -i http://pypi.pediapress.com/simple/ mwlib./bin/pip install -i http://pypi.pediapress.com/simple/ mwlib.rlmw-zip -c :en -o test.zip Acdc Numbermw-render -c test.zip -o test.pdf -w rl# view error messages and view pdf file for resultswget http://www.pdflabs.com/tools/pdftk-the-pdf-toolkit/pdftk-2.02-1.el6.x86_64.rpmsudo yum install libgcjsudo rpm -i pdftk-2.02-1.el6.x86_64.rpm# or do a user install of pdftkmkdir $HOME/srccd $HOME/srcwget http://www.pdflabs.com/tools/pdftk-the-pdf-toolkit/pdftk-2.02-src.zipunzip pdftk-2.02-src.zipcd pdftk-2.02-dist/pdftkmake -f Makefile.Redhat > make.log 2>&1cp pdftk ~/bin/</source><pre>Successfully installed mwlib pyparsing timelib bottle pyPdf apipkg qserve lxml py sqlite3dbm simplejson roman gevent odfpy Pillow greenlet</pre>

{{Messagebox

| type = failure

# run this service automatically in run-levels 3 or 5

# see chkconfig for more detail

# on debian/ubuntu use sysv-rc-conf

# chkconfig: 35 90 10

# description: mediawiki-serve - does document conversion to PDF

--pid-file='/var/run/mw-serve.pid' \

--report-from-mail=greg@freephile.com \

--report-recipient=greg@freephile.com"www-data

;;

exit 0

</source>

=== Digital Ocean ===

*{{@todo}} Install, verify and document process of setting up local render server

I have not installed a local render server, but on 2016-01-09 I did update the Collection extension. The new setup renders through pediapress. When I get a chance, I'll take a look at the current development status of the [https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Book_tool book tool] and related efforts like [[mw:Offline content generator|Offline content generator]]

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