On 04/17/2012 02:11 PM, [email protected] wrote:
The CSS3 Paged Media discussions on www-style are tagged with [css3-page].
Feel free to poke me with any questions; I'm the spec editor. And please
send comments about things that are stupid or broken to www-style so we
can fix them...

One part of the spec that might need to get implemented for PDF.JS is the 
ability to specify the size of individual pages. If I get that right from the 
spec, this can be done like this:

     @page narrow { size: 4cm 4cm }
     div.foo { page: narrow }

Can you please help me, what the expected behavior is in the following case:

Assume the default page size is A4 and a div matching "div.foo" is at the very bottom of the first printed page. As it has a `page` property defined, 
the `@page narrow` properties get applied to the page the "div.foo" is on. But the page-size required the A4 page to shrink. As a consequence of the 
shrink process, the "div.foo" element is no longer on the same page as before, as it was at the very bottom and the page got smaller. In a 
consequence, the page that now contains the "div.foo" should get the narrow-page-size applied. But as the "div.foo" is no longer on the 
first page, the "@page narrow" doesn't apply to the first page anymore, and it size should be A4 again. But then the "div.foo" is on the 
first page again, the "@page narrow" get applied and ...

Do you see the endless loop? I haven't read the entire spec, but from what I 
read the behavior in this case is not clear to me.

If div.foo is assigned a different 'page' value than its previous sibling,
it forces a page break. So the first page remains unaffected, and the
next page is 4cm x 4cm.

http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css3-page/#using-named-pages

~fantasai
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