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I've been a big fan of MediaWiki and similar wiki-based text editors. I like the ability to quickly add text, collaborate, and share. However, there's always still the need for nicely formatted print output. Things like headers and footers (that say what I want them to say), page breaks, margins, etc.
Most solutions I've seen involve some sort of conversion to a intermediate print-media format (maybe MediaWiki to Microsoft Word or maybe some custom scripting that generates a PDF from the contents of a web page (with a lot of hard-coded references).
Is there any more generic solution that exists for this problem? Any framework that seeks to merge HTML and web content in general into a print media output format?
Any solutions, discussion regarding the pro's or con's, or whatever is welcome.
Thanks!
Update: I think CSS will only get me so far though... I've used CSS for similar type output (MediaWiki by default has a print format that hides much of the nav bar stuff). Think of a MediaWiki article though -- imagine me being able to tweak a tag in the content or something similar and now my margin is 1 inch instead of .5 inches. That's more along the lines of what I'm aiming for.
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Web-to-print is a service that provides print products and other branded materials via online storefronts. It's also known as “remote publishing,” a “Wed to Print Portal,” “Ordering Portal,” Marketing Portal,” “Web to Print Shop,” or a “print e-commerce solution.”
Open the web page. 2. Press Ctrl + A 3. Right click on the page and left click on “Print” 4.
A web to print storefront is a customized e-commerce website that allows companies to make pre-designed, standard print materials available for ordering on an on-demand basis.
http://www.princexml.com/
could be something for you. It converts xml and html pages to pdf documents.
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