Welcome to WikiBooks2PDF

WikiBooks2PDF is a free online service designed to generate e-books and ready-for-print PDF documents from online books found on wikibooks.org. You are free to store, share or print the resulting PDF and enjoy reading it on PC, E-Book Reader or as a hard copy.

PDF is generated using RenderX DiType XML to PDF XSL-FO formatter.

WikiBooks2PDF takes care of combining the parsed HTML into a single document. It looks through child pages and collects chapters and subchapters into a PDF document. WikiBooks2PDF uses the HTML provided by MediaWiki, which is transformed into PDF.

Every single book page (e.g. http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/The_Book) is checked (through MediaWiki API) on presence of subpages (http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/The_Book/chapter, http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/The_Book/chapter/subchapter and so on). If found, the service represents them as chapters and recursively repeats the process. Notice that http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/The_Book will not be considered as subpage of http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/The_Books. If a wikibook has a subpage like ../All_chapters (or Print_version, etc.) it is treated as any other subchapter, even if it already contains all the information of the book.

Internally, the MediaWiki's HTML is converted to an XSL-FO, which in it's turn is being formatted to PDF.

Enjoy!

Note: Currently WikiBooks2PDF supports URLs containing only ASCII characters.

TODO: tree-like outline, changes in the stamp, keep headings to text, html/css.