Previewing a whole book

[Lars Nooden]

Is there a method for grabbing a PDF version of an entire book or another
way of print-preview?

Regards,
/Lars Nooden
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/OpenSSH

[Aaron Adrignola]

If you create a collection of the pages in the book, you can download/view
it in PDF format, which is then suitable for printing. In fact, this system
is superior to the transclude-all-pages print versions older books have,
where it takes five minutes to load all pages and is no more portable than
viewing the original pages themselves. See
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Help:Collections for information on collections
and how to create one.

- Adrignola

Post by Lars Nooden
Is there a method for grabbing a PDF version of an entire book or another
way of print-preview?

[Lars Nooden]

Post by Aaron Adrignola
If you create a collection of the pages in the book, you can download/view
it in PDF format, which is then suitable for printing.

[snip]

Post by Aaron Adrignola
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Help:Collections for information on collections
and how to create one.

Thanks. Is it possible to upload that way, too? Say download an ODF
file, edit it, then put it back?

/Lars Nooden
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/OpenSSH

[Aaron Adrignola]

Post by Lars Nooden
Thanks. Is it possible to upload that way, too? Say download an ODF
file, edit it, then put it back?

You can upload PDFs and ODFs to Commons, but they have to be edited offline
and will be static. You cannot convert those files to wikitext within the
MediaWiki software either, though there may be third-party tools to do so.
Basically the conversion from wiki to electronic document is one-way.