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CSS Notes Are Coming in WeasyPrint

What are CSS Notes and how to use them with WeasyPrint?

Why Don’t You Add Type Annotations?

That’s a recurring question on our bug trackers: why don’t you add type annotations to your Python projects? That’s a good question, and it needs an article to really explain why.

More Colors in WeasyPrint

In the next major version of WeasyPrint, you’ll be able to use many new ways to define colors! New color notations 🎨 will be available, that’s cool, but that’s just the tip of the iceberg: behind the curtain, WeasyPrint had to change the way it manages colors. It’s the first step of the road leading to our final destination: CMYK support.

CSS Tricks: page breaks

When creating paged documents automatically, one of the most common remarks is: "This page break is really ugly, a human would never have done this!" That’s true: humans are still better than computers to define page breaks. But nothing prevents humans from teaching computers how to choose better page breaks!

Printing the Web

Everyday we work with web technologies, but our work is a bit different from a lot of people: we don’t create websites. Our HTML and CSS aren’t displayed on web browsers, but transformed into PDF files.

CSS Tricks: `box-decoration-break`

When a box is split between multiple pages, do you want do display its top and bottom borders? Sometimes you do… but sometimes you don’t.

CSS Tricks: footnotes

What would be an old book, a research paper, a 100-page report, a very important contract without footnotes at the bottom of the pages?

CSS Tricks: running elements

Having the current chapter name and number displayed in each page margin is useful in many situations: quickly turning the pages and checking the current chapter, printing a page and knowing in which part of the book it is, remembering the general topic of a long paragraph when reading a complex essay…

CSS Tricks: page’s `margin`

You probably already noticed that books are made of pages. And you probably already noticed that there are two kinds of pages: rectos and versos. But, did you notice that it causes the layout of these pages to be slightly different?

CSS Tricks: `leader()`

If you ever tried to create a beautiful table of contents, you may have tried to include leaders. Leaders? Yes, these small dots you put between a chapter’s title and its page number.

CSS Tricks: multicolumn

Splitting content into multiple columns is a common way to display text in books, newspapers and flyers. Guess what: CSS can do this for you!

CSS Tricks: `@media`

Using the same content on a website and on a printed document is a very common requirement. Even when the two versions share most of the style, it’s often useful to define some specific details for one of the supports using media types.

CSS Tricks: `@page`

Ever wanted to use a landscape orientation for your tables, because they’re too large and overflow the page? It’s possible with CSS named pages!

The Python Packaging Hell: The Minimal Solution (7 / 7)

Here we are. We untied knots, dug down to the roots, dissected formats, scattered files, opened a toolbox and defined needs. Maybe we can now think about making a package!

The Python Packaging Hell: The Expression of Needs (6 / 7)

Python packaging can sometimes be a nightmare. It’s all the more hellish because when we talk about package creation and installation, we should first start to define precisely what we mean.

The Python Packaging Hell: The Toolbox (5 / 7)

Python packaging can sometimes be a nightmare. To create, share and install packages, there are a lot of tools, sometimes doing the same thing, but not the same way.

The Python Packaging Hell: Files Everywhere (4 / 7)

Python packaging can sometimes be a nightmare. To convince yourself about that, you just need a few minutes of drowning into the myriad of usable (and used!) files to build or install a packages.

The Python Packaging Hell: Delusions of Formats (3 / 7)

Python packaging can sometimes be a nightmare. But, by the way, what is a package? Obviously, as nothing is simple, as nothing will be spared, the non-answer to this question is: it depends…

The Python Packaging Hell: the Roots of Evil (2 / 7)

Python packaging can sometimes be a nightmare. Because of the stupidity of Python maintainers? What if it was more complicated?

The Python Packaging Hell: The Can of Worms (1 / 7)

Python packaging can sometimes be a nightmare. You don’t know what we’re talking about? Let’s present you a couple of things and we’ll talk again after that…