Web-to-print

Web-to-print tools

Experimental, fragile, in progress but also more stable tools.

More widely used

• your browser (based on CSS Paged Media): use CTRL+P/CMD+P
• Weasyprint https://weasyprint.readthedocs.io/
• Paged.js https://www.pagedjs.org/
• wkhtmltopdf https://wkhtmltopdf.org/

More experimental

• OSPKit (CSS Regions legacy support!) http://osp.kitchen/tools/ospkit/
• 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/

Readings

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

Lists & archives

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

Events

Summer schools, workshops, conferences, worksessions, seminars

• http://relearn.be/2013/
• https://constantvzw.org/site/-Promiscuous-pipelines-.html
• https://varia.zone/publishing-partyline.html
• https://libregraphicsmeeting.org/
• https://core.servus.at/en/projekt/2021/servus-dsign-week + https://dsignweek.servus.at/
• Seminar at HfG Karlsruhe with Raphaël Bastide and Sarah Garcin (June 2023)

Online channels

• PrePostPrint Matrix space
• PrePostPrint mailinglist