Template talk:PDF version

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What is vapirware, and why is it used here? The term gets 3ghits excluding wikibooks and mirrors. If it is to remind people to include the link, should a more useful message be printed, I assumed it was vandalism! Conrad.Irwin 22:00, 11 October 2007 (UTC)Reply

Not vandalism, just bad spelling. Vaporware. --darklama 22:13, 11 October 2007 (UTC)Reply

How is PDF vaporware? It's not even software, it's an open standardized document format as long as you use PDF/A and not the Adobe version. Adobe Acrobat/Reader is certainly bloatware and dangerous (closed source, vulnerable, spyware, crash-prone), but not vaporware either.--88.74.219.203 (discuss) 14:07, 5 March 2011 (UTC)Reply

These vaporware or whatever shouldn't figure into Category:Books with PDF version because it's false. On the French Wikibooks we used the same system (#ifexist) to automatically categorize them into Category:Books with requested PDF version. And I'm frustrated to see that on this highly protected template. JackPotte (discuss • contribs) 01:40, 1 February 2016 (UTC)Reply

In a different wiki, How can I make the pdf files accessible only to authenticated users?
--Abercrombie (talk) 21:56, 6 December 2007 (UTC)Reply

You should modify your LocalSettings.php. JackPotte (discuss • contribs) 01:40, 1 February 2016 (UTC)Reply

PDF versions get out-of-date quickly. In the long run, we want automatic generation of PDFs--is that in the queue? In the meantime, maybe it's worth linking to the instructions for creating/updating PDFs? Jodi.a.schneider (discuss • contribs) 11:00, 14 March 2011 (UTC)Reply

Help:Print_versions#PDF_versions is linked from this template to create them manually.

There is an automatic version in special:book but it can be buggy, especially with the table tags. JackPotte (discuss • contribs) 01:40, 1 February 2016 (UTC)Reply

You can to PDFs with table tagss using the MediaWiki to LaTeX tools I wrote. Currently 75 percent of the PDF available on the english wikibooks were created with it. Just tell me if you need an updated pdf version. Currently you can get it for a well know commercial operating system as well as a source code for linux, a binary will also be included in the next release of Ubuntu --Dirk Hünniger (discuss • contribs) 16:41, 1 February 2016 (UTC)Reply

Parasitic Insects, Mites and Ticks: Genera of Medical and Veterinary Importance
On this page, the template outputs "A PDF versionof Parasitic Insects, Mites and Ticks"
with "versionof" instead of "versionof".
Varlaam (discuss • contribs) 19:30, 30 June 2017 (UTC)Reply

Done JackPotte (discuss • contribs) 21:01, 30 June 2017 (UTC)Reply