I’ve written about turning your blog into a book, now it’s time to talk about printing your blog out as a book. Ah! Something a little different.
A List Apart’s tutorial, “Printing a Book with CSS: Boom!”, takes you step-by-step through the process of taking your pretty web page design and printing out your blog like a book. Very cool.
Can CSS be used for serious print jobs? To find out, we decided to take the ultimate challenge: to produce the next edition of our book directly from HTML and CSS files. In this article we sketch our solution and quote from the style sheet used. Towards the end we describe the book microformat (boom!) we developed in the process…
…A printed book has many features not seen on screens. There are page numbers, headers and footers, a table of contents, and an index. The content must be split into pages of fixed size, and cross-references within the book (for example, “see definition on page 35”) must be resolved. Finally, the content must be converted to PDF, which is sent to the printer.
Web browsers are good at dealing with pixels on a screen, but not very good at printing.
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Copyright Lorelle VanFossen, member of the 9Rules Network
4 Comments
Wow…Its a cool idea of taking web page design and printing out the blog like a book. Its gr8
is it possible to print from blogger? I want to be able to print into a book form so its like a journal/scrapbook for my family. Am I stuck since I have been on blogger?
@ danielle:
You mean “Blogger” as in Google Blogspot blogs? You’ll have to ask someone who knows about that blogging service.
Yes, I am wondering the same thing about “Blogger”. I would like to print my blog like a scrapbook with pictures and text as a gift for my father who does not use a computer. If anyone gets an answer or solution on this, I would sure appreciate the info. Thanks.
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