CSS Print

Books and publications made with CSS Print workflows

• DiVersions (MediaWiki, Paged.js)
• Reclaiming Digital Infrastructures (pads, Paged.js)
• Machine Research (pads?, PJ Machine)
• Mondoteque (MediaWiki, Weasyprint)
• The Techno-Galactic Guide to Software Observation (pads, mdsh?)
• Volumetric Regimes (MediaWiki, Paged.js)
• Data Workers (MediaWiki, asciiWriter)
• ...

CSS Print tools

Layout engines for CSS Print

• your browser (based on CSS Paged Media): use CTRL+P/CMD+P
• Weasyprint https://doc.courtbouillon.org/weasyprint/stable/
• Paged.js https://www.pagedjs.org/
• wkhtmltopdf https://wkhtmltopdf.org/
• Vivliostyle https://vivliostyle.org/
• OSPKit (CSS Regions legacy support!) http://osp.kitchen/tools/ospkit/

Custom workflows made with CSS Print

• html2print http://osp.kitchen/tools/html2print/
• etherpash https://github.com/chchchchchchch/var.lgm.etherpash
• 8m-posters (8 March poster generator made by Julien Bidoret) https://prepostprint.org/8m-posters/
• PageTypeToPrint https://ateliers.esad-pyrenees.fr/pagetypetoprint/
• Padatrad https://gitlab.com/editionsburnaout/padatrad
• octomode https://git.vvvvvvaria.org/varia/octomode
• ether2html http://osp.kitchen/tools/ether2html/
• ethertoff http://osp.kitchen/tools/ethertoff/

Examples, boilerplates, resources

• https://constantvzw.org/wefts/webpublications.en.html
• http://web.2print.org/
• https://books.constantvzw.org/
• https://gitlab.com/prepostprint/demos
• https://prepostprint.org/resources/
• https://ateliers.esad-pyrenees.fr/web/pages/exemples/#webtoprint

Readings

• https://phd.julie-blanc.fr/ (published in 2023)
• https://yanntrividic.fr/assets/files/sujet_these.html (PhD in progress)

Online channels

• W3C CSS Print Community Group (launched in 2020, closed in December 2023)
• PrePostPrint Matrix space

See also

• CSS Print examples
• Free, Libre, and Open Source Software publishing practices
• PDF
• HTML + CSS
• Typesetting Tools