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Printing a book with HTML/CSS

Primary LanguageHTML

Printing a book with HTML and CSS: demo

This repository shows advanced CSS features for printing a book from an HTML page:

  • Transform links to footnotes.
  • Table of contents.
  • Cover page.
  • Page parameters.
  • Page numbers.
  • Blank pages.
  • etc.

Blog article related to this repository: http://blog.michaelperrin.fr/2019/11/04/printing-the-web-part-2-html-and-css-for-printing-books/ .

The build/book.pdf is the file generated from from the book.html file of this repository.

Generating the PDF file

I have created a Docker image for Prince XML.

Make sure Docker is installed and run:

docker run --rm \
    -v "`pwd`":/data \
    michaelperrin/prince:latest \
    -o /data/build/book.pdf \
    /data/book.html