Community Wishlist Survey 2019/Wikisource/Offer PDF export of original pagination of entire books

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Offer PDF export of original pagination of entire books

Français: Pouvoir exporter en pdf en respectant la pagination de l'édition source.

Problem: Presently PDF conversion of proofread wikisource books doesn't mirrors original pagination and page design of original edition, since it comes from ns0 transclusion.
Français: La conversion en PDF des livres Wikisource ne reflète pas la pagination et le design original des pages de l’édition originale, car la conversion provient de la transclusion et non des pages.
Who would benefit: Offline readers.
Français: Lecteurs hors ligne.
Proposed solution: To build an alternative PDF coming from conversion, page for page, of nsPage namespace.
Français: Élaborer un outil pour générer un PDF alternatif provenant d’une conversion page par page.
More comments: Some wikisource contributors think that nsIndex and nsPage are simply "transcription tools"; I think that they are much more - they are the true digitalization of a edition, while ns0 transclusioni is something like a new edition.
Français: Certains contributeurs de wikisource pense que nsIndex et nsPage sont simplement des « outils de transcription » ; je pense qu’ils sont beaucoup plus que cela – ce sont la vraie numérisation d’une édition, tandis que la transclusion ns0 constitue une nouvelle édition.
Phabricator tickets: T179790
Proposer: Alex brollo (talk)

Discussion

With the ws-export tool getting error messages many a times it is better to have this functionality in to the default pdf download of the mediawiki. So it would be easy to download the book and associated subpages with it in the correct order. -- Balajijagadesh (talk) 06:48, 11 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Voting

Support Pcastellina (talk) 08:34, 17 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support Libcub (talk) 11:49, 17 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support Liuxinyu970226 (talk) 01:04, 18 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support Hatchiko (talk) 05:08, 18 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support Imzadi 1979 → 05:36, 18 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support Satdeep Gill (talk) 07:09, 18 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support Satpal Dandiwal (talk) 07:10, 18 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support Benipal hardarshan (talk) 07:10, 18 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support Wikilover90 (talk) 07:11, 18 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support ਨਿਸ਼ਾਨ ਸਿੰਘ ਵਿਰਦੀ (talk) 07:11, 18 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support Simranjeet Sidhu (talk) 07:13, 18 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support Harshaan Ghuman (talk) 07:13, 18 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support Armaan kakrala (talk) 07:14, 18 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support Dugal harpreet (talk) 07:15, 18 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support more generally PDF export should be totally re-done on Wikisource if we really want to achieve "Knowledge as a service" and "Knowledge equity" for our readers. VIGNERON * ^discut. 12:32, 18 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support Info-farmer (talk) 13:19, 18 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support Jeb (talk) 15:49, 18 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support Ankry (talk) 23:26, 18 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support Emptyfear (talk) 15:23, 19 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support Sadads (talk) 17:58, 19 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support Zdzislaw (talk) 00:24, 20 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support Actually, I'd apply this to ALL of wikimedia sites. Export to PDF is broken in many ways and needs some tuning. Lostinlodos (talk) 01:15, 20 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support Thibaut120094 (talk) 14:20, 20 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support Salicyna (talk) 18:26, 20 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support Andrewredk (talk) 20:12, 20 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support Tris T7 (talk) 02:36, 21 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support MYMMMC (talk) 05:49, 21 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support Reptilien.19831209BE1 (talk) 06:28, 21 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Strong support Conny (talk) 15:06, 21 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support Novak Watchmen (talk) 15:16, 21 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support S1.pl (talk) 16:35, 21 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support Gce (talk) 17:29, 21 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support And.martire (talk) 11:50, 22 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support Peter Alberti (talk) 17:45, 22 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support Balajijagadesh (talk) 18:48, 22 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support Jayantanth (talk) 19:56, 22 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support Bodhisattwa (talk) 01:12, 23 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support Tpe.g5.stan (talk) 09:48, 23 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support Chrisric (talk) 11:26, 23 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support --*j*jac (talk) 11:58, 23 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support Sahaquiel9102 (talk) 17:38, 23 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support Sannita - not just another it.wiki sysop 01:01, 24 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support odder (talk) 10:46, 24 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support Wuyouyuan (talk) 20:22, 24 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support SyB~Anicium (talk) 20:32, 24 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support Vulp here 02:15, 25 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support Cobalt~frwiki (talk) 10:36, 25 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support Yland (talk) 17:39, 25 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support Ranjithsiji (talk) 22:52, 25 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support — AfroThundr ^{(u · t · c)} 03:04, 26 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support As wikipedia content is consulted offline, on SIRI, in the Knowledge graph of Google ; Wikisource content should be easy to export. Isn't it perfectly in line wit the Strategic Direction of Wikimedia Movement? :) Pyb (talk) 10:39, 26 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support Gideoraielgave (talk) 17:20, 26 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support Nemo 22:19, 27 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support Zyephyrus (talk) 18:21, 28 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support εΔ ω 17:44, 29 November 2018 (UTC)
Support Edhral 07:12, 30 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]