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''This page is dedicated to research on web-to-print approaches and workflows.'' | |||
'''Deadline for research:''' June 26 | |||
=Starting points= | |||
Ultimate goal: transform reflowable (markup-based) digital publications into fixed-layout PDF. | |||
Case study: [http://beyond-social.org/ Beyond Social]. How can web-to-print (or wiki-to-print) be applied to Beyond Social. | |||
Requisites: | |||
* an online workflow, that can be run on a server | |||
* support page numbers | |||
* gather all articles in on to 1 document | |||
Advanced features: | |||
* impositions - how can impositions, instead of simple stack of pages, be integrate into this workflow? | |||
= Possible strategies - software = | |||
* [http://www.latex-project.org/ laTex] - Document preparation system, focused on the creation of PDFs, uses its own markup, supported by Pandoc. | |||
* [http://wkhtmltopdf.org/downloads.html wkhtmltopdf] - HTML to PDF converter based on Webkit. | |||
* [https://pypi.python.org/pypi/WeasyPrint Weasy Print] - Python, visual rendering engine for HTML and CSS that can export to PDF | |||
* Mediawiki [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Collection Collection Extension] - the same system used by Wikipedia to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Books create books] in PDF and Epub formats. | |||
== assessment == | |||
For each strategy try to point out: | |||
* summary of the workflow | |||
* example prototype | |||
* advantages | |||
* disadvantages | |||
* how can it be integrated into teaching | |||
==further questions== | |||
can you export latex rules to css? | can you export latex rules to css? | ||
[[Category:research]] | [[Category:research]] | ||
Revision as of 10:00, 5 June 2015
This page is dedicated to research on web-to-print approaches and workflows.
Deadline for research: June 26
Starting points
Ultimate goal: transform reflowable (markup-based) digital publications into fixed-layout PDF.
Case study: Beyond Social. How can web-to-print (or wiki-to-print) be applied to Beyond Social.
Requisites:
- an online workflow, that can be run on a server
- support page numbers
- gather all articles in on to 1 document
Advanced features:
- impositions - how can impositions, instead of simple stack of pages, be integrate into this workflow?
Possible strategies - software
- laTex - Document preparation system, focused on the creation of PDFs, uses its own markup, supported by Pandoc.
- wkhtmltopdf - HTML to PDF converter based on Webkit.
- Weasy Print - Python, visual rendering engine for HTML and CSS that can export to PDF
- Mediawiki Collection Extension - the same system used by Wikipedia to create books in PDF and Epub formats.
assessment
For each strategy try to point out:
- summary of the workflow
- example prototype
- advantages
- disadvantages
- how can it be integrated into teaching
further questions
can you export latex rules to css?
