CSS for Printing to Paper

1. paper-css

   1 4 2,545 0.0 CSS

   Paper CSS for happy printing

   

   I appreciated the read, but in real life just link to the css file in Paper-CSS[1].

   It may not be a lot of CSS, but it is much easier for me to just include the page and have it deal with my page size than to review articles like this when I want to pint.

   [1]: https://github.com/cognitom/paper-css

2. InfluxDB

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   InfluxDB – Built for High-Performance Time Series Workloads. InfluxDB 3 OSS is now GA. Transform, enrich, and act on time series data directly in the database. Automate critical tasks and eliminate the need to move data externally. Download now.

   

3. utilitarianism.net

   2 10 11 7.5 HTML

   Official repository for utilitarianism.net

   

4. stylo

   3 1 151 9.7 Rust

   CSS engine that powers Servo and Firefox (by servo)

   

   > Is there any easy to use/hack HTML layouting engine where I could experiment with custom CSS attributes and bridge that gap? Would anything from Servo be suitable?

   Servo could be used for this. You'd want to add support for parsing the CSS properties themselves to the style crate in https://github.com/servo/stylo and then the layout implementation to the layout2020 crate in https://github.com/servo/servo. You do effectively get a whole browser though.

   I'm currently working on building a lighter weight / hackable layout engine based on a combination of https://github.com/servo/stylo (for css parsing and selector resolution), https://github.com/DioxusLabs/taffy (for box-level layout) and https://github.com/pop-os/cosmic-text (for flow/inline layout). I expect to have something decent in around 6 months

   Neither of these setups currently have any support for pagination though.

5. Servo

   4 169 30,802 10.0 Rust

   Servo aims to empower developers with a lightweight, high-performance alternative for embedding web technologies in applications.

   

   > Is there any easy to use/hack HTML layouting engine where I could experiment with custom CSS attributes and bridge that gap? Would anything from Servo be suitable?

   Servo could be used for this. You'd want to add support for parsing the CSS properties themselves to the style crate in https://github.com/servo/stylo and then the layout implementation to the layout2020 crate in https://github.com/servo/servo. You do effectively get a whole browser though.

   I'm currently working on building a lighter weight / hackable layout engine based on a combination of https://github.com/servo/stylo (for css parsing and selector resolution), https://github.com/DioxusLabs/taffy (for box-level layout) and https://github.com/pop-os/cosmic-text (for flow/inline layout). I expect to have something decent in around 6 months

   Neither of these setups currently have any support for pagination though.

6. taffy

   5 38 2,513 8.8 Rust

   A high performance rust-powered UI layout library

   

   > Is there any easy to use/hack HTML layouting engine where I could experiment with custom CSS attributes and bridge that gap? Would anything from Servo be suitable?

   Servo could be used for this. You'd want to add support for parsing the CSS properties themselves to the style crate in https://github.com/servo/stylo and then the layout implementation to the layout2020 crate in https://github.com/servo/servo. You do effectively get a whole browser though.

   I'm currently working on building a lighter weight / hackable layout engine based on a combination of https://github.com/servo/stylo (for css parsing and selector resolution), https://github.com/DioxusLabs/taffy (for box-level layout) and https://github.com/pop-os/cosmic-text (for flow/inline layout). I expect to have something decent in around 6 months

   Neither of these setups currently have any support for pagination though.

7. cosmic-text

   6 30 1,794 8.7 Rust

   Pure Rust multi-line text handling

   

   > Is there any easy to use/hack HTML layouting engine where I could experiment with custom CSS attributes and bridge that gap? Would anything from Servo be suitable?

   Servo could be used for this. You'd want to add support for parsing the CSS properties themselves to the style crate in https://github.com/servo/stylo and then the layout implementation to the layout2020 crate in https://github.com/servo/servo. You do effectively get a whole browser though.

   I'm currently working on building a lighter weight / hackable layout engine based on a combination of https://github.com/servo/stylo (for css parsing and selector resolution), https://github.com/DioxusLabs/taffy (for box-level layout) and https://github.com/pop-os/cosmic-text (for flow/inline layout). I expect to have something decent in around 6 months

   Neither of these setups currently have any support for pagination though.

8. WeasyPrint

   7 51 7,812 9.5 Python

   The awesome document factory

   

   You don't _have_ to use a browser. I had very good results with Weasyprint [0]. And there's also PrinceXML [1] if you're willing to pay.

   [0]: https://weasyprint.org/

9. SaaSHub

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   SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews. SaaSHub helps you find the best software and product alternatives

   

10. asciidoctor-web-pdf

    8 9 474 0.0 JavaScript

    Convert AsciiDoc documents to PDF using web technologies

    

    I've been test-driving the web pdf build tool for Asciidoc, asciidoctor-web-pdf[1], for a few years, which uses Paged.js as the template engine before CSS PMM has its go. I like it - I like it a LOT[2] - but Puppeteer-Chrome bugs breaks the build on the regular, or requires a rework of templates. So the web-pdf team started just releasing docker images that include a tested Chromium version (among other things), so as to keep that from being such a PITA. Which is fine. Howaaaayyyyyyyver . . that shines a spotlight on a problem with this workflow: the dependency on browser rendering kit.

    [1] https://github.com/ggrossetie/asciidoctor-web-pdf

11. website2pdf

    9 1 27 2.1 TypeScript

    Node library to print PDFs from a website following sitemap protocol

    

12. flyingsaucer

    10 7 2,112 9.6 Java

    XML/XHTML and CSS 2.1 renderer in pure Java

    

    I have been creating print labels with plot/cut lines using css and I used browsers to covert it to PDF. The experience was terrible. While all was perfect on my 1-page proof print, both large browsers messed up the final document (with a few hundred labels on several pages).

    Firefox forgot to render images after a few pages. So on some labels the barcodes were not printed.

    Chrome looked good at the fist glance. But it turned out that the plot/cut lines (which I created via CSS borders) had been shifted by 1-2mm on _some_ pages. Result was garbage.

    I finally switched to https://github.com/flyingsaucerproject/flyingsaucer which is a high quality HTML/CSS to PDF library. Only drawback is that it only supports CSS 2.1, so some fancy features are not supported like rotating text.

13. Hartija---CSS-Print-Framework

    11 2 534 0.0 HTML

    Universal CSS for web printing

    

14. litehtml

    12 10 2,070 8.3 C++

    Fast and lightweight HTML/CSS rendering engine

    

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