Tools

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⚡ A lot of tools that are showcased on actual PrePostPrint resources pages are detailed here. Feel free so add some details and list them under proper section title (if applicable :) Talk:Tools page might serve as a space to discuss the structure and the sorting of items.

Base libs & tools

These tools form the basis of many others and serve as the cornerstone for the construction of more specific factories.

paged.js

https://pagedjs.org/

JavaScript library that paginates content in the browser to create PDF output from any HTML content

html2print

http://osp.kitchen/tools/html2print/

Open Source Publishing’s tool to design print document in the browser.

WeasyPrint

https://weasyprint.org/

WeasyPrint is a smart solution helping web developers to create PDF documents

Bindery.js

https://bindery.info/

No longer in development, Bindery.js was a javascript library to create printable books with HTML and CSS, developped by Evan Brooks.

Factories

These tools are made of multiple sub-tools plugged together to build complete publishing pipelines.

Octomode

https://git.vvvvvvaria.org/varia/octomode

Wiki-to-print

https://git.vvvvvvaria.org/varia/wiki-to-print

Bookolab

http://bookolab.coalitioncyborg.org/

Bookolab is a collaborative tool for editing and formatting multisupport editions.

PageTypeToPrint

https://ateliers.esad-pyrenees.fr/pagetypetoprint/

A web2print template dedicated to the thesis and written documents of ÉSAD Pyrénées. Made by Julien Bidoret.

Pink my pad

https://pinkmypad.net

(Re)Publish pads in static html pages. Pandoc inside.

ChattyPub

https://hackersanddesigners.nl/chattypub.html

PDF generators

Misc tools that help generate PDFs

Typemill

https://typemill.net

A lightweight flat-file cms that can create websites and generate eBooks (PDF) from it.

PDF-LIB

https://pdf-lib.js.org/

Create and modify PDF documents in any JavaScript environment.

jsPDF

https://parall.ax/products/jspdf

A javascript library for generating PDFs.

dompdf

http://dompdf.github.io/

dompdf is an HTML to PDF converter.

PDFCDU

https://pdfcpu.io

pdfcpu is a PDF processor written in Go supporting encryption.

Misc (unsorted)

• plancton from luuse (link?)
• distribusi
• distribusi-go
• distribusi-verse

Padatrad

https://gitlab.com/editionsburnaout/padatrad

Padatrad allows to collectively translate texts and edit them from a web browser.

p5.genzine

https://github.com/munusshih/p5.genzine

p5.(gen)Zine, by Munus Shih & Iley Cao, is a free library for creative code & zine-making. Use p5.js to collaborate, fork, remix & build community with generative coded zines.

8m posters

https://prepostprint.org/8m-posters/

Posters maker for the International Trans★Feminist Digital Depletion Strike in 2023

Calendar

https://neatnik.net/calendar/

This is a simple calendar with the full year on a single page. It’s designed to be printed.

THX - Présence Solidaire

https://gitlab.com/3ts/thx-2021-book/

Sources of the book « Présence Solidaire » from Markdown and LaTeX to Print PDF, Screen PDF, ePUB.

PPP Demos

https://gitlab.com/prepostprint/demos

A repository with demos of web-to-print, CSS print and Scribus scripts.

Minute Hack

https://lab.raphaelbastide.com/minutehack/

This HTML / CSS starter kit generator allows to create a simple web to print project using paged.js. A running server is required, instruction in README.

Chapbook

https://chapbook.page/

A chapbook generator based on bindery.js

PrintCSS

https://printcss.live/

A simple CSS print editor with PDF live preview.

PanWritter

https://panwriter.com/ Template:Editing

Distraction-free writing environment with great import / export options, and a paginated preview for print and PDF.

Print.js

https://printjs.crabbly.com/

A tiny javascript library to help printing from the web.

Fonio

https://github.com/medialab/fonio/

A collaborative scholarly software allowing to build high quality static websites for teaching and research.

The Magic Book Project

https://github.com/magicbookproject/magicbook

The Magic Book Project is funded by New York University's Interactive Telecommunications Program. It aims to be the best free tool for creating print and digital books from a single source.

Libriis

https://github.com/bachy/libriis

A Markup Cascading Styles Printing software. Inspired by html2print from osp, write and organize your contents with markdown, design your layout with css and js, export to pdf and share your work with git.

Adaad

https://gitlab.com/raphaelbastide/ADaaD

Minimal directory-based CMS (PHP, XMLHttpRequest and json) able to quickly export a paged.js book.

Letter

https://github.com/bastianallgeier/letter

Letter is a simple, highly customizable tool to create letters in your browser.

Script for marginal notes

https://gitlab.pagedmedia.org/tools/experiments/tree/master/margin-notes

For paged.js

LaTeX CSS

https://latex.now.sh/

This almost class-less CSS framework turns your HTML document into a website that looks like a LaTeX document.

Rune.js

http://runemadsen.github.io/rune.js/

JS library to create SVG. Tons of nice examples.

One Letter Posters

http://ecogex.com/one-letter-posters/

Simple A4 based message generator. It uses CSS Print and Paper.js

do•doc

https://latelier-des-chercheurs.fr/en/tools/dodoc

do•doc is an open-source tool, designed to support the creation and sharing of multimedia documents and narratives.

Size by area Organize a logo list with CSS

https://nicksherman.com/size-by-area/

p5.riso

https://antiboredom.github.io/p5.riso/

p5.js library for generating files suitable for Risograph printing

Ronin

https://wiki.xxiivv.com/site/ronin.html

Procedural graphics tool by Hundread Rabbits

pdftools

A collection of PDF command line tools and wrappers for Linux written in Bash Shell script. Conversion, OCR, make pdf, etc.

https://github.com/uroesch/pdftools

Prepress tools

Imposition

Collections of tools, bash scripts, JS snippets and other witchcraft to impose your PDF to print on laser printer, riso and small workshop printers.

Bookletor

https://gitlab.com/quentinjuhel/Bookletor

A bash script to transform PDF into a booklet (imposition).

make_booklet.sh

https://gitlab.com/yanntrividic/the-moral-of-the-xerox-vf/-/blob/main/make_booklet.sh

A bash script to transform PDF into a booklet (imposition).

booklet-scripts

https://gitlab.com/manufacturaind/booklet-scripts

Collection of bash scripts to impose book.

PDFImpose

https://pypi.org/project/pdfimpose/ + https://pdfimpose.readthedocs.io/

A python library to impose PDFs, with nice defaults (bases on schemas : cards, copycutfold, cutstackfold, onepagezine, hardcover, saddle, wire)

BookPageOrder

https://github.com/naknomum/BookPageOrder

Algorithm and utility (perl & javascript implementation) for ordering pages for N-up layout, including support for signature. Useful for bookbinding, zines, etc.

Bookbinder JS

https://momijizukamori.github.io/bookbinder-js/

An online Javascript-based app for formatting PDFs for bookbinding. Interactive, and pretty complete.

Colors settings

Collections of tools and other witchcraft to sets color profiles, convert RGB to CMYK pdf, separate color layers.

pdfutils

https://gitlab.constantvzw.org/osp/tools.pdfutils

A repo for small PDF utilities to convert RGB pdf to CMYK pdf, make color separation, etc.

Paged.js tools and resources

A collection of starter kits for Paged.js

https://pagedjs.org/posts/2020-04-15-starterkits-for-pagedjs/

The title says it all!

Paged.js Templates

https://gitlab.com/pagedjs-templates

Useful examples of paged.js uses to get started with simple or advanced web-to-print projets.

Blend Mode parser

A script to convert image with fancy colors and mix-blend-mode properties into a secure flat one.

Usefull for sending your duotone experiment to printer. Written by Robin De Mourat.

Typesetting

Rag Adjust

A bit of JavaScript to automatically fix the rag of any body of text, by Nathan Ford, ported to paged.js hook and French language by Yann Trividic.

Typesetting-tools

A collection of scripts and tools for typesetting for French typographic rules by Julie Blanc.

Type js

Typographic tools for better web type by Nathan Ford.