[Fwd: [gnu.org #821921] Idea (gsoc): PDF generation of gnu.org articles]

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Subject: [gnu.org #821921] Idea (gsoc): PDF generation of gnu.org articles
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2013 01:31:26 -0400
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Hi,

There is a book already published with Tamil translations of gnu.org
articles. We are planning to publish one in Malayalam too. So I think
it would be useful to many language communities to have this facility
of generating a book from selected articles from gnu.org itself. This
would also be useful for downloading articles and sharing these
offline. Another advantage is to not duplicate typesetting efforts
when we already have a good layout on the web page.

Wikipedia already provide such a functionality.  If there is an
interest from gnu.org team, we would like to propose this as an idea
for google summer of code (under swathanthra malayalam computing or
this could be done under gnu.org too). The library used by wikipedia
does not support Indian languages so we have created a new pdf library
with Indic support (pypdflib, which internally uses pango/cairo).

Please let us know if we can proceed with this idea for gsoc.

Thanks
Praveen
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