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Web documents are cheaper and more accessible, but there's still a quite large usage of print documents, so at least I, as a document author, don't want to comm
by mjn 11y ago
Web documents are cheaper and more accessible, but there's still a quite large usage of print documents, so at least I, as a document author, don't want to commit to a "web-only" toolchain without a good to-print workflow also being available.
It's possible for HTML+CSS to also provide a good to-print workflow, but I don't think it's there yet, at least using open-source tools. I have heard PrinceXML can produce good results, with sufficient control over the print layout to make HTML+CSS usable as a print-oriented markup language. But between the cost, and the prospect of becoming dependent on a proprietary tool with no obvious alternatives, I haven't tried it.
- jamespaden 11y agoPrinceXML is definitely the best tool, but there are a couple similar commercial alternatives and wkhtmltopdf have become a decent open source solution as long as you want basic docs.