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Re^2: How can I generate a pdf from html with css?

by LanX (Saint)
on Feb 16, 2009 at 21:49 UTC ( [id://744218]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re: How can I generate a pdf from html with css?
in thread How can I generate a pdf from html/css?

> HTML does not even have a concept of page-length, so how would you reliably split your HTML-"pages" into PDF-pages.

Well CSS2 has separate "@media" styles which you can be used for printing. This has a concept of page-length!!!

But AFAIK that's only supported by browsers and you have to fiddle around with preset browsersettings like pagemargins and pagenumber and so on... not really a reliable approach for server programming.

Anyway I'm using this for printing¹ some private html-pages with firefox...

Cheers Rolf

UPDATE: Link (German): http://de.selfhtml.org/css/eigenschaften/printlayouts.htm

(¹) ...and of course I can also directly print to a PDF-file.

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