Paged Media CSS examples

@page

@page {
  size: A5 portrait;
}

@page:right @page:left

@page:right {
  margin-left: 3cm; /*inner*/
  margin-right:1cm; /*outer*/ 
  
  @bottom-right {
    content: "Testing 123!!!";
  }
  
  @bottom-center {
    content: "Testing WeasyPrint";
  }
}

@page customsection

@page custom{
  background-color: lightyellow;
  
  @bottom-center {
    content: "Testing WeasyPrint";
  }
}

section#custom{
  page: customsection;
}

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@page:left {
  margin-right: 10mm; /*inner*/
  margin-left: 15mm; /*outer*/

  @bottom-left {
    content: "Testing WeasyPrint";
  }

  @bottom-center {
    content: "Testing WeasyPrint";
  }
}

@page:first

@page:first {
  @bottom-center { 
    content: ""; 
  }
  @bottom-right { 
    content: ""; 
  }
}

@page:customsection

@page customsection {
  background-color: pink;

  @top-center { 
    content: "Hello :)"; 
  }
}

section#custom{
  page: customsection;
}

pagenumbers

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pagenumbers

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hyphens

    hyphens: auto;
    hyphenate-limit-chars: 8;

display links in print

a[href]:after {
	content: ' (' attr(href) ')';
}

Links

Paged Media CSS references

• https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/Paged_Media
• https://www.princexml.com/doc/paged/

html2print PDF engines

• https://www.pagedjs.org/
• https://weasyprint.readthedocs.io/
• https://pandoc.org/

PDF-generating oneliners

• $ pandoc -f markdown --pdf-engine weasyprint -c stylesheet.css filename.md -o filename.pdf
• $ weasyprint -s stylesheet.css filename.html filename.pdf