On 8/9/15 4:45 PM, Jan Tosovsky wrote:
> Dear All,
> 
> (1) there was lot of work in W3 recently dedicated in CSS for paged media
> (2) there are conversion tools from HTML+CSS to PDF utilizing these features
> (3) some interesting JavaScript libraries have appeared (e.g.
> vivliostyle.js) emulating the intended rendering to 'yet inmature' browsers
> (polyfills)
> 
> which make me wonder if there is an interest in making some kind of
> reference implementation of PDF-like output in HTML+CSS from DocBook source,
> especially for (3). Has anybody any experience with it?

There were some mumblings a while ago that this might be the direction
of print output, seeing that XSL-FO doesn't have much activity anymore.
 So more investigation is surely welcome.

I played with this a while ago, and while you can get pretty good
looking "print" output with fairly little effort, there are some obvious
functionality gaps, such as: How do you produce a table of contents with
page numbers?


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