Description: PrintCSS/CSS Paged Media (PDF generation from XML and HTML using CSS stylesheets) tutorial and showcase with lessons, tool descriptions and comparions. PDFreactor Antennahouse PrinceXML
This tutorial shows how to generate PDF documents from XML/HTML using the "CSS Paged Media" approach, whereby the complete styling and layout information is kept in cascading stylesheets (CSS). It will also show the results produced by different tools with identical data, providing an impression of functionality and output quality.
In brief: CSS Paged Media (a W3C standard) is a way of generating PDF documents using XML/HTML as input and CSS for styling. It can be thought of as an extension of CSS for print purposes. As such, it is obvious that CSS Paged Media must deal with print-related considerations such as pagination, page formats, page regions and other print-specific details.
This tutorial is work-in-progress and is based on the "CSS Paged Media" workshop given for the first time at the XML London 2015 conference. The tutorial is subdivided into the various aspects of CSS Paged Media, with most parts containing a sample index.html with appropriate example data for the purpose of a particular lesson and a styles.css file containing the specific print styles. The styles are kept as simple as possible in order to demonstrate functionality. Sophisticated layout options have been omi
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