Render pages in Collection as if they were rendered by wiki engine

Question

I am experimenting with Mediawiki Collection extension, for generating books from my articles (which I find very useful). However it doesn't render everything in the same way my mediawiki instance does.

Namely,

• mathjax elements don't render
• and pictures don't render as well

For instance, here how things get rendered by wiki

And how they end up in the pdf generated by Collection

I understand the reasons behind this behavior: the rendering is done not by my wiki, but by some external service, which has no idea about my client-side plugins.

My question is: how can I get my wiki render all the pages I want, possibly in HTML with all client-side extensions, and then convert the results to PDF?

When I open a page in "printable" view (with &printable=yes) it renders everything as I want. It could be nice to use that to render multiple pages at once (this is in essence what Collections does...)

Thanks

Answer 1

I ended up creating an extension that takes a list of pages and renders them all to a single page. After that I can just print it

The code is available here

This is how it looks like in PDF now:

Also you can add &printable=yes and it will give you a fully prepared printable version which you can just save as HTML.