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Author in wiki, generate PDF documents, CHM files or in-line help

Does anyone know a wiki or wiki plugin that creates a PDF or CHM file that covers the entire wiki?

  • I would like to have control over the table of contents.
  • I want internal and external links to work.
  • It’s ideal to allow customization of the output template, but this is not a deal break.

I want to generate content using WIKI syntax and thinking (lots of cross-references, etc.), but send the content in PDF, CHM or attachment form. Something more friendly than installing wiki software on an enduser machine ...

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XWiki does it out of the box.

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MediaWiki PDF Export Extension allows you to select a group of PDF pages. I have not installed it yet, so I don’t know if it is easy to use this function to select all pages.

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Confluence lets you select pages when exporting to PDF

But you can not configure many PDF files
You can customize it a bit through the theme (based on speed)

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Sphinx ( http://sphinx.pocoo.org/ ) is a pretty good tool for creating HTML (or CHM) and PDF documentation, with wiki-like syntax, This is not a wiki; you cannot edit over the Internet, and HTML generation requires a build process. However, this is pretty good, with cross-referencing , fairly simple markup, and (in HTML output) a search engine implemented in JavaScript without server dependencies other than static hosting. Sphinx was developed for the new version of the Python documentation and is pretty handy; for example, the GeoServer project (which I work, sorry shameless plugin) uses Sphinx with a custom theme for the new version of its user and developer guide .

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JIRA ( http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira/default.jsp ) - your ugly wet dream in terms of control; it is exported to PDF (among others), and you can have full control over pages, TOC and other aspects, although you expect some complexity to configure it.

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Microsoft has an HtmlHelp Authoring tool that can create chm files from html files.

If you need help files both on the Internet and in deployed applications, creating help from the same files that are used on the Internet can be a great solution. If the help site was created using asp.net (that is, using a database), perhaps it is worth using the basic styles and creating a tool for generating html files by reading on served pages?

Have a look: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms524239(VS.85).aspx

I think it would be possible to additionally create a PDF file from HTML pages?

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