By green monkey on

I looking for a path to convert a Drupal website to a standalone eBook (offline).

If I could get content into HTML, the tools to create an eBook is large enough.

From what I have been able to learn searching throuhg the Modules area and Forum threads, is maybe a XML output might be the way to go.

ideas or suggestions?

happy holidays

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tmallen’s picture

tmallen commented

XSLT to PDF is the way to go, but I was unable to find a module that specializes in this sort of thing. Good luck!

rahim123’s picture

rahim123 commented

I would also be interested in something similar. It's interesting to note that for some publishing applications, Drupal is much better suited than OOo Writer or MS Word. But to produce a distributable, printable format, Drupal is still lacking,

green monkey’s picture

green monkey commented

generally I find the only things that Drupal "lacks" are features that very few people have a need for.

good-old suppy and demand :-)

we have several PDF modules, that might be another path

I'll wait a few days to see what additional feedback comes this way. The combined talent floating through this forum, is awesome

usually someone will suggest a cleaner and simpler way to complete a task - than what I was preparing to do

Quint’s picture

Quint commented

> "Drupal is lacking"

Is that a fair comment?
What other packages allow you to export your website to PDF? Wordpress, Mambo, Joomla, vBulletin?

rahim123’s picture

rahim123 commented

> "Is that a fair comment?"

Absolutely it's fair, Drupal is currently unable to do this. :-) I never said Drupal was junk or that this is a mission critical feature, but apparently it's not able to export a site to PDF at the moment. So, big deal, life goes on.

vm’s picture

vm commented

I think the point was what scripts can ?

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green monkey commented

that drift off topic was probably my fault, I get a bit defensive regarding Drupal

tis the season to be jolly

Dear Santa,
Please bring a simple path to an eBook format

I also have 2 feet of snow outside, on top of 2 inches of ice -- that I can barter with :-)

... wait is that riendeer I hear?

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fumbling commented

Were you able to find a solution? I would think that the Drupal book module would be the most likely aspect to dovetail into an ebook, but not sure that it's possible yet. Let me know if you find anything, as I have the same need, although not for the entire site.

AshokanKid’s picture

AshokanKid commented

Hey Fumbling;

I have not tried this myself, but have used a web site ripper which basically will shred through a site, saving pages to a depth level of your own choosing. You can restrict rips to stay on the site or to follow links offsite.

Once you have ripped the site to a folder or folders, you can then use a standard HTML e-book compiler which may even maintain the same web page links of the original site pages.

This would seem in theory to work as I have created HTML "sites" just for the purpose of compiling an e-book and would seem to be the same concept except that you would be ripping or dumping the PHP HTML output from the Drupal site.

If one had access to the server this might be easier another way., or not., but it certainly must be do-able. Google for web site rippers., I think that is the term. Lemme know how you make out.

AK