[publican-list] faster testing of wkhtmltopdf

Jeff Fearn jfearn at redhat.com
Fri Nov 2 04:56:06 UTC 2012


Hi, someone was testing modifying their brand for wkhtmltopdf generation 
of PDFs and asked me if there was a a faster way of doing CSS changes 
and seeing how they affect the PDF.

This is how:

1: cd $book-dir

2: publican build --formats html-pdf

3: cd tmp/en-US/html-pdf

4: vim Common_Content/css/???.css

5:  wkhtmltopdf --header-spacing 5 --footer-spacing 3 --margin-top 20 
--margin-left 15mm --margin-right 15mm --header-html 
/usr/share/publican/header.html  index.html test.pdf

6: evince test.pdf

7: until happy, goto 4

8: copy the changed css file to your brands source

wkhtml2pdf supports a lot of CSS3 features, so you should be able to 
play with widows and orphans as well as basic looks.

Cheers, Jeff.

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Jeff Fearn <jfearn at redhat.com>
Senior Software Engineer
Infrastructure Engineering & Development (AEU)
Red Hat Asia Pacific Pty Ltd
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