Print Books with Browsers
Designing books in browsers using Paged.js
Julie Blanc (@julieblancfr) Digital Publishing Summit – May 26, 2019
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Print Books with Browsers Designing books in browsers using Paged.js Julie Blanc (@julieblancfr) Digital Publishing Summit May 26, 2019 Automated typesetting and pagination for print Make PDF outputs of HTML contents from browsers Flux
Designing books in browsers using Paged.js
Julie Blanc (@julieblancfr) Digital Publishing Summit – May 26, 2019
Automated typesetting and pagination for print Make PDF outputs of HTML contents from browsers
http://www.pagedmedia.org/
PagedMedia Meeting, MIT Press Cambridge), January 9th, 2018
Proprietary vs. open-source (own) Rendering engines Non-standard properties No visual preview
Open and free tool(s) Based on web standards Visual preview Automated workflows
A free and open source JavaScript library that paginates content in browser to create PDF outputs from any HTML content
https://pagedmedia.org/paged-js
Founder: Adam Hyde Core team: Fred Chasen, Julie Blanc, Julien Taquet Funding: Shuttleworth Foundation
Fragmentation of the content (chunker) Transformation of CSS declarations (polisher) Preview (previewer)
gitlab.pagedmedia.org/samples
demos.pagedmedia.org/page-floats
https://gitlab.pagedmedia.org/tools/pagedjs-cli
pdf-lib (parsing and editing the structure) hummus (visual updates) Ghostscript (images and color color management)
MIT licence Documentation - Website Community Mattermost)
Advocate for better support of print-related standards in browser engines
julie-blanc.fr/slides (@julieblancfr) https://pagedmedia.org/paged-js