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Support tables in PDF rendering (tracking)
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Oct 8 2014, 4:26 PM
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18.21 < cscott> hm, i guess you might as well make a tracking bug

Support for tables, currently completely skipped. Most notable example: infoboxes.

For some issues in mwlib PDF rendering, see https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Thread:Talk:PDF_rendering/Tables

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This card tracks a proposal from the 2015 Community Wishlist Survey: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2015_Community_Wishlist_Survey

This proposal received 23 support votes, and was ranked #39 out of 107 proposals. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2015_Community_Wishlist_Survey/Templates#Inserting_templates_.28tables.29_in_PDF_and_Books

This was also on the German Community Wishlist 2015: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Umfragen/Technische_W%C3%BCnsche_2015/PDF_und_Drucken#Tabellen_in_PDFs

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Nemo_bis added a comment.Mar 5 2015, 8:00 AM

I *think* OCG is not currently developed, so it will stay at a lower service level than the predecessor for a while (probably years, if I have to bet).

Eloquence added a subscriber: ssastry.Mar 5 2015, 8:04 AM

The Parsoid team is responsible for OCG. @ssastry has committed that crashers will be treated with high priority (to at least achieve graceful recovery). Table support is not scheduled yet and likely a few months out.

Krenair added a comment.Mar 5 2015, 1:00 PM
In T73808#1091362, @Eloquence wrote:

The Parsoid team is responsible for OCG. @ssastry has committed that crashers will be treated with high priority (to at least achieve graceful recovery). Table support is not scheduled yet and likely a few months out.

As in, they will fix OCG failing to render lots of articles? As a high priority for the next quarter? info-en@wm.o has received a lot of complaints from readers about those, but it's seemed to me so far that the relevant person on the Parsoid team does not have time available to fix it.

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Nemo_bis merged a task: T85777: PDF renderer doesnt handle infoboxes.Jul 15 2015, 8:21 AM
Nemo_bis merged a task: T73982: PDF renderer omits table in some cases and is inferior to the one in use on 2013-11-20.
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Pollopalko raised the priority of this task from Medium to Unbreak Now!.Aug 1 2015, 2:16 PM
Sjoerddebruin lowered the priority of this task from Unbreak Now! to Medium.Aug 1 2015, 2:17 PM

You can't decide that.

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Cainamarques added a subtask: T50606: Tables produced by German template "Klimatabelle" not rendered correctly in PDF.Sep 18 2015, 12:47 PM
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• DannyH added a project: Community-Wishlist-Survey-2015.Dec 7 2015, 11:39 PM
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Aklapper mentioned this in T121349: Download as PDF via rdf2latex causes several rendering problems.Dec 13 2015, 8:50 PM
Juetho mentioned this in T121507: PDF rendering: templates omitted.Dec 15 2015, 10:33 AM
Krenair merged a task: T121507: PDF rendering: templates omitted.Dec 15 2015, 4:02 PM
Krenair added subscribers: StudiesWorld, Juetho.
• DannyH moved this task from Wishlist 51-on to Wishlist 21-50 on the Community-Wishlist-Survey-2015 board.Dec 15 2015, 8:35 PM
Aklapper merged a task: T122882: Download as PDF doesn't include wikitable.Jan 5 2016, 3:50 PM
Aklapper mentioned this in T122882: Download as PDF doesn't include wikitable.
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Aklapper added a comment.Jan 21 2016, 2:53 PM
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• DannyH updated the task description. (Show Details)Feb 6 2016, 12:04 AM
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Krenair merged a task: T134287: PDF Rendering in Wikipedia Missing important portion.May 3 2016, 5:45 PM
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RIT_RAJARSHI mentioned this in T134287: PDF Rendering in Wikipedia Missing important portion.May 4 2016, 11:00 AM
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Tobi_WMDE_SW updated the task description. (Show Details)May 18 2016, 11:37 AM
Tobi_WMDE_SW mentioned this in T135613: [GTWL] Include hint about excluded tables when generating a PDF.May 18 2016, 11:45 AM
Tobi_WMDE_SW created subtask T135616: Investigate underlying issues with tables in PDF rendering.May 18 2016, 12:01 PM
Bmueller mentioned this in T135422: Wishlist tasks suggested for the Wikimania Hackathon 2016.May 18 2016, 3:19 PM
Lea_WMDE removed a subtask: T135616: Investigate underlying issues with tables in PDF rendering.May 18 2016, 4:02 PM
Lea_WMDE subscribed.May 18 2016, 4:34 PM

WMDEs WMDE-TechWish is going to investigate the issue of tables not rendering in pdfs. Currently we don't know yet how far we will get. Just to have a clearer idea what is currently on our todo-list, we opened a new ticket in https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T135643
If suitable, we will later pull tasks from here to our workboard.

Lea_WMDE moved this task from Incoming to Tables in pdfs on the TCB-Team (now WMDE-TechWish) board.May 18 2016, 4:38 PM
• GWicke subscribed.EditedMay 18 2016, 5:41 PM

@Lea_WMDE, we have recently looked into alternative rendering strategies with support for tables and other HTML features. See T134205: Options for browser-based server-side PDF generation for a summary of options. We have a basic labs service running a browser-based render service, which you can use to try out the rendering. Examples: Berlin, San Francisco

Tobi_WMDE_SW mentioned this in T135643: Show tables in pdfs (#9).May 18 2016, 6:59 PM
Lea_WMDE mentioned this in T135616: Investigate underlying issues with tables in PDF rendering.May 19 2016, 10:31 AM
Quiddity added a project: Wikimania-Hackathon-2016.Jun 9 2016, 5:29 AM
Quiddity moved this task from Backlog to Projects on the Wikimania-Hackathon-2016 board.Jun 9 2016, 5:40 AM
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• GWicke added a comment.Jun 25 2016, 3:08 PM

Notes from a conversation & prototyping work at Wikimania are available at:

https://docs.google.com/a/wikimedia.org/document/d/13nTL-MHHvMHNQBAvOli5D-e01pslqXecsFQLqWgThwc

Quiddity mentioned this in T137606: Track Community Wishlist Tasks @ Wikimania Hackathon .Jul 7 2016, 8:22 PM
Aklapper mentioned this in T140414: PDF (book) creation fails to render the table "Die zehn höchsten Scheitelwasserstände am Pegel Hohensaaten" on https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oderbruch#Oderhochwasser.Jul 15 2016, 11:11 AM
RIT_RAJARSHI added a comment.Jul 25 2016, 2:26 PM

I had reported that some portion of a wikipedia page is not coming into pdf rendering tool. The report had been merged with a project called T73808 Support tables in PDF rendering (tracking) . Thanks for it, but later-on I discovered, it was not a typical "table", but it was a "gallery" , when I saw the wikicodes in source-editor

Nemo_bis added a comment.Jul 26 2016, 12:03 PM
In T73808#2406799, @GWicke wrote:

Notes from a conversation & prototyping work at Wikimania are available at:

https://docs.google.com/a/wikimedia.org/document/d/13nTL-MHHvMHNQBAvOli5D-e01pslqXecsFQLqWgThwc

Please download and upload to Commons; this URL is not even viewable on my browser due to unspecified cookie requirements.

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• GWicke mentioned this in T142226: Productize the Electron PDF render service & create a REST API end point.Aug 5 2016, 5:12 PM
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In T73808#2495330, @Nemo_bis wrote:
In T73808#2406799, @GWicke wrote:

Notes from a conversation & prototyping work at Wikimania are available at:
https://docs.google.com/a/wikimedia.org/document/d/13nTL-MHHvMHNQBAvOli5D-e01pslqXecsFQLqWgThwc

Please download and upload to Commons; this URL is not even viewable on my browser due to unspecified cookie requirements.

Copied to P3864

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Aklapper added a comment.Sep 14 2017, 10:39 AM

As already announced in Tech News, OfflineContentGenerator (OCG) will not be used anymore after October 1st, 2017 on Wikimedia sites. OCG will be replaced by Electron. You can read more on mediawiki.org.

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TheDJ closed subtask T73818: Support {{NFPA 704}} in PDF as Resolved.Jun 4 2019, 1:31 PM
thiemowmde removed a project: TCB-Team (now WMDE-TechWish).Nov 2 2020, 10:34 AM
Aklapper closed subtask T73814: Support Infobox Film time format as Declined.Feb 28 2021, 10:15 AM
Aklapper closed subtask T73809: Support {{chess diagram}} as Declined.Feb 28 2021, 10:59 AM
Aklapper closed subtask T73851: Support {{collapse top}} as Declined.Mar 2 2021, 10:56 PM
Aklapper closed this task as Declined.Mar 2 2021, 11:20 PM
Aklapper closed subtask T50606: Tables produced by German template "Klimatabelle" not rendered correctly in PDF as Declined.

This is fixed on Wikimedia servers nowadays:
General table support for MediaWiki pages exported as PDF was implemented a while ago by removing OCG-PDFRenderer/OfflineContentGenerator and replacing it with Proton and Electron-PDFs as the new PDF rendering stack on Wikimedia servers.

Declining this task as it is explicitly tagged with OfflineContentGenerator which has been dead for years and has been superseded by Proton and Electron-PDFs on Wikimedia servers.

If you run into specific issues with tables in the currently available PDF export on Wikimedia servers, then please file a new ticket with updated information and steps to reproduce. Thanks!

Aklapper changed the task status from Declined to Resolved.Mar 2 2021, 11:22 PM
Aklapper edited projects, added Proton, Epic; removed Tracking-Neverending.

...or well, in terms of Wikimedia (as this was on several wishlists) it probably makes more sense if I add the Proton tag and close it as resolved instead, I guess. :)

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