Questions tagged [zim]
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How to "uncompress" a ZIM file?
I have a ZIM file and would like to have a look at its content. In particular count the number of articles and images, and maybe browse images.
How to do that? Preferably on Linux but instructions for other systems are OK too.
I don’t want to count…
Nicolas Raoul
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Change font color of headers in Zim Wiki
This mail archive entry describes how one can edit style.conf to change the color of headers in Zim Wiki.
Enter the color you like:
[Tag h1]
foreground=#b20000
Save the changes, close and reopen Zim Wiki, and you should be good.
However,…
Flo
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plugin directory for zim wiki 0.63 on windows 10
I would like to install some additional plugins (e.g., Mendeley) to zim. The instructions seem straightforward (from the Mendeley-plugin readme):
The plugin may be installed (like all Zim plugins) by cloning it to one of Zim's plugin search…
Flo
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Downloading wikipedia database for offline use
Here there are many ZIM files: https://dumps.wikimedia.org/other/kiwix/zim/wikipedia/
I want complete English Wikipedia with images... which one should I download?
What is the difference for example between en_all_maxi and en_all_mini?
What en_100…
user40602
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How to export a partial notebook in zim-wiki command line?
Zim documentation specifies the following arguments for export at https://zim-wiki.org/manual/Help/Commandline_Options.html , but I am trying to find a command line equivalent of selecting a Page: and exporting single page with its subpages in the…
Joe
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How to edit ".zim" files
I have downloaded a Wikipedia dump for Farsi language as a .zim file. I can open it with Kiwix software and it works. The problem is that the font of official Farsi Wikipedia is Tahoma by default but local downloaded pages are in something else that…
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Picture description in zim wiki 0.64
I use zim for more than a year, but probably in very simple way. Is it possible to add description to a picture which I attached? Is there any command, or maybe a template?
I can simply write above or bellow the picture, which does not look very…
weatherman
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Importing Linux-type files in zim-wiki
I have a folder with some text files. As not uncommon in Linux, these files have no extension, and the file names have white spaces. E.g. a text file is named Data for project X.
Unfortunately, if I want to import this folder into a new zim…
luchonacho
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mwoffliner ZIM file creation issue with local MediaWiki
I installed mwoffliner 1.6.0 as per these instructions in a Ubuntu 18.10 (cosmic, desktop edition). Some programs were missing and I apparently managed to install all of them.
I succeeded running the command-line and download an external Wiki…
pdeli
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How exactly do I use custom templates in Zim wiki?
When I go to File > New Page, the only available templates are the ones on the wiki folder. I created a separate folder to contain my custom templates but I can't figure out a way to select them.
user400424
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