Wikibooks:Reading room/Archives/2015/July

Status: Rendering process died with non zero code: 1
I've been trying to make a PDF version of Formal Logic for me to print and read offline, but I got this error. Does anyone know of a solution? Thanks. Kayau (talk · contribs) 18:29, 17 July 2015 (UTC)


 * It doesn't work indeed − User:Duplode/Collections/Formal Logic fails to render, and excluding pages from the book (hoping that the issue would be caused by some specific page) doesn't help. There seem to be reports of similar issues with all sorts of wiki pages . In any case, I guess you'd better not bother with the Collection Generator for now − another of the known issues with it is that it can't render tables, which would wreck any Logic book. The one alternative I know of is Dirk Hünninger's offline renderer (usage information, and also installation instructions for Linux; SourceForge download page for the Windows version), which is a behemoth but gets the job done. To use it, you'd create a page transcluding all of the pages in the book (such as e.g. Haskell/Print version) and then run the renderer on that. --Duplode (discuss • contribs) 00:02, 18 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Thanks, I'll try that. Kayau (talk · contribs) 04:14, 20 July 2015 (UTC)

Problem with the "Edit top section" gadget, and a suggestion
The "Edit top section" gadget adds the "edit" link in the top left corner of the page (just before the title, which is not good-looking) although it is supposed to add it in the top right corner; as mentioned in the Preferences page. Besides, when using the Modern skin it gets even worse as the "edit" text doesn't appear due to its blue color matching that of the background. Any solution ? By the way, I suggest adding a gadget which moves all section "edit" links to the right side, similar to the one at the English Wikipedia. --SylerHaker (discuss • contribs) 14:44, 31 July 2015 (UTC)

Proposal to create PNG thumbnails of static GIF images


There is a proposal at the Commons Village Pump requesting feedback about the thumbnails of static GIF images: It states that static GIF files should have their thumbnails created in PNG. The advantages of PNG over GIF would be visible especially with GIF images using an alpha channel. (compare the thumbnails on the side)

This change would affect all wikis, so if you support/oppose or want to give general feedback/concerns, please post them to the proposal page. Thank you. --McZusatz (talk) & MediaWiki message delivery (discuss • contribs) 05:08, 24 July 2015 (UTC)

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Happy editing! MediaWiki message delivery (discuss • contribs) 23:42, 31 July 2015 (UTC)