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I've found wkhtmltopdf, which looks good on the surface and works fine in very small cases, but it doesn't provide any real css control over the rendering.
By that I mean it doesn't use the print media type and page breaks are not respected, as well, on windows you can't control the names of some header/footer variables, or generate a TOC off of teh h1 tags.
Are there any real open source alternatives, I've tried xhtml2pdf which is a python library actually called pisa, but it requires reportlab which doesn't play nice windows.
I'm actually programming in .net but if its good and open source, the language isn't a huge issue.
This is an old stackoverflow question, but because google took me here, it could be helpful for somebody else.
Weasyprint should support what the author was looking for.
It supports print css features like page break.
Try weasyprint
It turns out there was no open source alternative that was simpler, but on windows wkhtmltopdf is just not the best thing, so we paid for a better solution.
Winnovative's PDF library is what we used
While it is not open-source, I use ABCPDF. I have a template page in .NET that I use for a wrapper to set up a custom stylesheet for generating PDFs only.
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I've been searching lately for different way to present a user manual that is easy to use and understand.
At first, I tought that the Microsoft Help files would be great, since I knew my way around basic HTML. Little did I knew that Microsoft Help Workshop was a bit more complicated than simply taking HTML and processing it. I had multiple problem while trying to ajust the different styles and classes applied to my HTML.
What would be the best tool to use to convert an existing HTML project (HTML, CSS and basic Javascript) to a compiled .CHM file?
If it is not possible, what option would be worth exploring when making maintainable user manuals?
Thanks.
I would explore using pandoc to convert your html or markdown to docbook or pdf, or any of 100s of other formats.
There are various tools available to do that. Few noteworthy are: nDoc or DocBook or FAR HTML or doxygen or Microsoft's SandCastle
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I am currently looking for a web development IDE that highlights the syntax of html and more important, indents the html-code correctly. I have tried Dreamweaver but it doesn't seem to have a feature for auto-indenting html-code while you're typing. I also have tried NotePad++ and Aptana 3.0 but no luck with both.
So I was wondering if anyone knows a web development IDE that meets my needs.
Thank you in advance.
I'm using an IntelliJ IDEA (I'm java web developer). IDEA makes high-quality formatting code in any language, including in an HTML.
Eclipse is a very very good editor. For indenting u can try ctrl+shift+f key combinations.
Also you can use Aptana Studio. It is free as well as a very good editor.
Koding is a browser-based IDE, and the editor text editor (Ace) was originally developed for Web Languages (HTML/JS/CSS) so it supports them quite well.
Again though, this is browser based, so if you're looking for a local-only tool this may not be of help. :)
I'd suggest VS Code. Because...
It's dev by Microsoft
Very good suggestions and autocomplete feature
Code folding feature. It will be extremely useful when coding for big websites
Interactive layout and amazing color themes
Live server plug in support which us good for checking the output live .
However, At the end any IDE you'd b using it will help very much so go with something suggested by the instructor during the course. It will be lot ore easy to use!!
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we are planning to write our software documentation in Markdown, but to provide a clickable webview we need to convert the Markdown documents to a nice looking set of HTML pages.
In our workflow we tend to write the documentation and deliver the documenation together with the sourcecode and binaries to our clients. I found a lot off 1-page convert to html programs, but i am wondering if there is a good converter that takes markdown pages and styling elements and is able to convert that to a workable site, including navigation elements such as sub-pages etc?
Is this an end-user documentation or an API-documentation for developers?
For first case I'd suggest looking at Wiki software with Markdown support.
For second case, you should really mention which programming language.
You should check out Gollum. It's the software that powers Github's wikis. It converts a git repository of text files into a wiki.
Here is a blog that introduces several tools that maintain documentation with Markdown. ScreenSteps seems to fit you the best.
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Can any one suggest me a good tutorial or book for learning HTML Components (htc) ?
HTC files are driven by the behavior CSS style. This is non-standard and only works in IE, so you won't be able to support users of other browsers using this method.
Because of this, virtually all the HTC behavior files I've seen have been implemented as hacks to make IE support some or other feature which other browsers already have.
For example:
CSS3Pie
WhateverHover
When it comes to developing HTC files, there's not actually that much to it - they're basically standard Javascript, with a small XML wrapper. If you can write Javascript in the browser, then you'll be able to write an HTC behavior file. The downside is that you won't be able to use any external Javascript, so no JQuery or other libraries.
The question is why? As I say, the only use-case that makes sense if you want to write an IE hack. Virtually everything else that you could want to use HTC for would be better implemented as straightforward Javascript, for any number of reasons.
Well here are some resources on them:
http://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-HTMLComponents
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms532146(v=vs.85).aspx
I'm not 100% sure what you meant by "learning HTML Components", I assume those are what you are after.
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Is there an editor that is:
Available for at least windows and linux
Highlights multiple syntaxes in the same document. (Ala Dreamweaver)
Tabbed interface
All the editors I tried highlighted by file extension only which isn't fine grained enough.
At the very least it needs to distinguish scripting from html, css and javascript in the same document.
Scite!
The answer is emacs. You can do pretty much anything you want with that editor. There is a 'nxhtml-mode' which you can use to edit javascript, php, html,ruby, jsp,css, whatever on the same file. If you're still at university, the best advice I can give you is to start learning how to use emacs. It will change your life, really.
Eclipse (very good, but heavy)
vim (doesnt have tabs, but aprt from that very lightweight and very good)
emacs (only heard about it that is is very good, but it has a steap learning curve)
hop it helps
Netbeans.
I've only tried it with HTML av Javascript for two languages in the same file though.
I have used jedit. Just need a java runtime.
Handling syntax highliting and completion for multi-language files is something the NetBeans people have been working on and has been available for javascript since 6.1. I got the impression from JavaPosse#214 that this has seen further work in 6.5.
I don't Netbeans myself (my primary tools are Emacs and Eclipse), but It might be worth a look for you.
SciTE FTW!!! Doesn't even need an installation! A portable single exe.