[REBOL] Re: page-breaks in html or pdf?
From: bry:itnisk at: 5-Dec-2003 12:24
>The problem is, that if there is more than one doc for customer at one
>batch, it is generated as multi-doc document (html or pdf) - but - some
>of our customers complained that it is really difficult to print that
>way. I chcecked out and did not find any way of how to issue something
>like page-break in html. It is probably not even possible.
Well it's not really possible, but there is in css the possibility of
setting your css to be a specific media:
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/media.html
Some implementations have come along that I believe allows you to
specify that .mypagebreakclass starts a new page for example.
> What about
>pdf? Is there any chance to insert page-break into pdf doc?
Well I know it's possible to break a page programmatically in pdf,
however when I work with pdf generation I do so from one remove, using
xsl-fo.
Of course there is a pdf standard, which I don't have a link to right at
the moment, which goes into monstrously exhaustive detail about such
things as breaking pages.
http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2002/03/20/xsl-fo.html
a propos the css+html method, yeslogic http://yeslogic.com/ has a
product prince that supports css3 media properties with some extensions
to better handle pagination requirements (I'm pretty sure one could
force page-breaks), I looked at it in version 2.0 but found that it
wasn't good enough for my requirements, considering that we had an
xsl-fo based media channel for our Media Organizer product MediaMaxx
that was far more advanced than I could see easily building with prince,
that said for people with simpler needs something like prince would
probably be a good solution.
