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**BeBerlin** · 07-09-2009, 08:38 PM

Chaps,

Countless hours of work went into this. Massive thanks to Ben (who did all of the coding) and Da Bomb (who, as always, installed the software, but also upgraded the Wiki software for this to work): Help:Books - Straight Razor Place Wiki.

In a nutshell: Mark one or more articles for PDF download, then create the PDF. I must admit that I am bit excited about this, as it opens us new opportunities to propagate SRP's collective knowledge. Here is an example, containing Lynn's "First Shave" and the "Beginner's Guide": click me!

This extension allows a user to organize personal selections of pages in a collection. Collections can be

edited and structured using chapters
persisted, loaded and shared
rendered as PDF (see Extension:PDF_Writer)
ordered as a printed book at PediaPress â€“ Home

See the press release Wikis Go Printable for more information on this project.

Enjoy!

Robin, on behalf of The Wiki Crew

**JimmyHAD** · 07-09-2009, 08:49 PM

Arrgghh, more new tricks for an old dog to learn.

Thanks Robin and the Wiki crew, this looks like a really handy resource once I figure it out. Maybe a neat way to do a honing log ?

**BeBerlin** · 07-09-2009, 09:15 PM

Originally Posted by JimmyHAD

Maybe a neat way to do a honing log ?

Ah. The next project. Blogs. At this point in time, I think I'd set up a personal blog with a provider that allows for good PDF output. I would recommend supersized.org because they're truly free, and s9y is arguably the best blogging software on earth (and yes, I run a heavily modified version of Blosxom, dated November 2002...).

**JimmyHAD** · 07-09-2009, 09:34 PM

Originally Posted by BeBerlin

Ah. The next project. Blogs. At this point in time, I think I'd set up a personal blog with a provider that allows for good PDF output. I would recommend supersized.org because they're truly free, and s9y is arguably the best blogging software on earth (and yes, I run a heavily modified version of Blosxom, dated November 2002...).

Thanks Robin. I will check those out and see whether one or another suits my needs.

**oldfat1** · 07-10-2009, 12:27 AM

Thanks to everyone, nice resource.

**Slartibartfast** · 07-10-2009, 12:43 AM

You all have no idea how much of my companies time I wasted on this

Big thanks goes to dwessel for installing perl modules and updating mediawiki to 1.15

**hoglahoo** · 07-10-2009, 01:14 AM

Y'all are awesome. I love love love it. Love.

Love

This is coming in handy already as I'm putting together a bit on shaving for someone

**JimR** · 07-10-2009, 03:31 AM

Originally Posted by Slartibartfast

You all have no idea how much of my companies time I wasted on this

Big thanks goes to dwessel for installing perl modules and updating mediawiki to 1.15

It was time well wasted!

Thanks for this, guys, it is truly awesome...

**Slartibartfast** · 07-10-2009, 02:29 PM

This is good stuff. Robin is finding tweaks for this to make it even better.

See the following: Category:Books - Straight Razor Place Wiki

**BeBerlin** · 07-12-2009, 06:38 AM

Originally Posted by Slartibartfast

This is good stuff. Robin is finding tweaks for this to make it even better.

I think I just did something useful (at long last). The Wiki can now export ODF Text Documents. This means you can import articles into OpenOffice Writer, which is, in my humble opinion, the best text processor in the market.

Have a look: http://straightrazorpalace.com/srpwi...Special%3ABook.

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