List of OSP WebPrint-related repositories
work.spion
A repo from 2012. First attempt at making a print poster using HTML :)
Anna Kavan book
Derived from Médor first issues “boilerplate”.
Note: Using css regions polyfill for non-native support of css regions.
A script to fix common (French) microtypo rules: https://gitlab.constantvzw.org/osp/annak.print/-/blob/master/bin/microtypo.py
OSPKit
(initial repo? outdated)
Ether2HTML
Skeleton to design a webpage (for screen or print) synchronously on an etherpad.
HTML2print
This little tool is a boilerplate, a minimal example to start a print project using HTML, less/CSS and Javascript/Jquery to design it.
Note: not really a boilerplate anymore since it has received modifications for specific projects
There are many branches.
The branch devel seems to be the most recently updated branch.
A decent README, though probably not up-to-date.
Also contains an attempt at documention through use cases/examples.
https://gitlab.constantvzw.org/osp/tools.html2print/-/tree/merge-emile/examples
tools.html2print.doc
Another attempt at documenting html2print.
Great traces/glimpses of doc here by Quentin Astié!:
tools.html2print-tiny
Empty repository! But should contain an extremly minimal “CTRL+P” only version of HTML2print
tools.html5lib_typogrify
A set of filters to correct common typographical mistakes (for French Typography).
tools.ospkit
This browser is meant to be used with the project html2print available here: http://osp.kitchen/tools/html2print/. The aim is to lay out printed documents within a web browser. We built our own webkit browser in order to have a faster browser and good typography (weirdly, the bearings and kernings can be weird in certain webkit browsers). (and have a native implementation of CSS regions which allows us to layout multi-pages documents)
villa-arson.html2print
A django project for running a generic service to generate pdf from any html page.
The idea was that you could enter any url, select part of the document, associate css (a bit like Jsfiddle) and it would flow that into a template rendered by a headless version of ospkit. Seems down for a while now.
work.adva-zakai.overbooked
Book design with HTML2print (2015-17 from the commit dates). Some crazy imposition plans with OSP it seems.
work.balsamine.2013-2014
First Balsa programme done with a browser. Many tricks were found at that time.
The post-gutenberg issue.
Making of.
Mode lyrique — Répondre à et infuser la programmation spéculative de la Balsa par un déboitement un peu perché au-dessus des sillons tracés par Gutenberg il y a 550 ans. OSP tente une composition des textes et des images en utilisant les langages qui transforment le web mois après mois. Les propositions neuves et encore hésitantes sur leurs pattes de jeunes poulains de ces langues qui pensent le web à venir élargissent brutalement la manière dont des mots, des phrases et des visuels cohabitent comme des blocs de glaces sur une rivière à la fonte des neiges. La notion de page est soudain nettement plus flottante et intervient à la fin du processus comme une scansion temporaire, comme une résille au rectangle pointe d’autres potentiels. Un document du temps qui coule.
Mode technique — Depuis deux ans et demi, de multiples logiciels ont été utilisés pour la production graphique de la communication de la Balsa (fig 1). Cette saison (et peut-être bien à partir de cette saison), OSP a décidé de faire le mur et de sauter dans le verger ombragé de l’HTML récent et des CSS plus récents encore (fig 2). L’un et l’autre sont sortis de leur contexte naturel du web pour venir s’aventurer à produire les pages d’un petit livre. La liste des fonctionnalités nécessaires et des solutions qui peuvent y répondre se garni (même si elle reste un peu moto-cross - fig 4). Concrètement, en gros, les 48 pages de ce programme sont concentrés dans une longue et grande page web (html + css). Un javascript dessine les marques de repérages nécessaire aux imprimeurs page par page. Cette page est imprimée vers des pdf en fonction de leur couleur séparée. Le fichier de la mise en page de la Balsa peut-être visitée à l’aide de patience et d’un navigateur qui utilise le moteur libre Webkit le plus récent possible, comme Chromium, et en activant les Webkit Experimental Features dans la page
chrome://flags/.
http://osp.constantvzw.org/work/balsamine.2013-2014/tree/master/programme/programme.html
work.balsamine.20{14..21}-20{15..22}
Subsequent programmes of Balsamine Theater all made with variants of HTML2print.
https://gitlab.constantvzw.org/osp/work.balsamine.2014-2015 proto HTML2print
https://gitlab.constantvzw.org/osp/work.balsamine.2015-2016 derived fron html2print boilerplate
https://gitlab.constantvzw.org/osp/work.balsamine.2016-2017 derived fron html2print boilerplate
https://gitlab.constantvzw.org/osp/work.balsamine.2017-2018 derived fron html2print boilerplate
https://gitlab.constantvzw.org/osp/work.balsamine.2018-2019 derived fron html2print boilerplate
https://gitlab.constantvzw.org/osp/work.balsamine.2019-2020 Main booklet in Scribus
https://gitlab.constantvzw.org/osp/work.balsamine.2020-2021 Main booklet with ether2html
https://gitlab.constantvzw.org/osp/work.balsamine.2021-2022 derived fron html2print boilerplate
work.iselp50
Ether2html-derived project.
work.medor.maquette
Some kind of stripped-down boilerplate for layouting one-shot articles?
Old attemps, 7 years ago.
Was used to layout a Medor article that was not part of an issue but distributed alone on the former website.
work.medor.samples
Half-baked standalone article attempt for Medor. Not really usable.
workshop.esadse.elif
HTML2print boilerpate derived project.
A workshop at Esadse (Saint-Etienne School of Arts).
Documentation here: https://gitlab.constantvzw.org/osp/workshop.esadse.elif/-/blob/archive/Documentation.md
work.5blokken
A project made with Paged.js.
work.aesthetic-programming
Programming textbook made with Pelican, html2print, git and Paged.js, combined with Graphviz diagrams.
osp/workshop.saison-graphique
In the journal directory, a text by Nicolas Malevé on OSP that was layed out using an old boilerplate of HTML2print.
The content was collaborativelly written in a pad (like Ether2html) and the css too.
There is a small javascript that “replay” the layout in the making, like the timeslider of Etherpads.
workshop.strasbourg-html2print
Workshop at HEAR Strasbourg. The same files produce different ouputs using CSS media queries, aka responsive design for the print.
«L’atelier propose d’approcher la mise en forme d’un texte de manière liquide, de débrancher les réflexes de blocs» (cf Gutenberg)
Based on HTML2print boilerplate.
work.the-riddle
A thick book on architecture using html2print boilerplate and (from what I remember) content edited on gitlab by the writer/editor. A epub version was also produced.
Some javascript in there to manage footnotes and colorize images. Big work on the appendix.
work.variable-publication
Rue Gallaitstraat residency of Constant and co. report???
Plugged into etherpads for collaborative editing of the content and styles.
The publication and its editing interface are together in the same HTML.
A commit message says:
«Copier/coller du boilerplate html2print.
From the README:
Design of Constant/Variable publication.
Print party in 2 acts with HTML. This work relies on the experimental css regions feature of the webkit engine. It is known to work on: * chromium 33 * epiphany 3.12.1-1 * safari 7.0.2
work.villa-arson.diplomes2015
Villa Arson graduation website module for web2print made in 2015.
From the README:
Every year, the students of the art school of la Villa Arson, in Nice, France, show their work in a collective exhibition. A website comes along the exhibition to be used as a portfolio for these young artists who don’t necessarily have a website yet. The website has been developed in Wordpress internally to the school with some graphical advices from OSP. OSP has then branched the Wordpress to the html2print boilerplate to design PDFs for each of the student and one gathering all the works.
http://diplomes2015.villa-arson.org
Every visitor can print the PDF by itself by using the Print dialog of their web browser (tested on Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Epiphany).
Note: using the css-regions polyfill to support non-css-regions browsers.
villa-arson.edition-experience
Hybrid website/print booklet for a seminar on edition.
L’édition comme expérience Apprentissage, coopération et transmission par les projets éditoriaux.
Webprint page for the event, using css grid and media queries.
work.villa-arson.ecart
Website for the 2015 publication of Réseau ECART (European Ceramic Art & Research Team).
«The website has been created with Ethertoff, a simple collaborative web platform, a wiki featuring realtime editing thanks to Etherpad. Its output is constructed with equal love for print and web.» :)
http://incertains-genres.reseau-ecart.eu
medor/boilerplate
This is a boilerplate for the belgian quaterly Médor, based on HTML2print.
Note: 6 years old although it hasn’t changed much since.
medor/boilerplate2019
It’s all in the name!
In the README, an attempt at documenting the install of OSPKIT and how to compile qtwebkit.
medor/medor0
Yet another boilerplate for Médor. More up to date: changes/improvements/update made during medor issue are pushed back to this repo (but not consistently by everybody).
The README says:
«Maquette médor pour démarrer un nouveau numéro avec tout les layouts, une cheatsheet, et petites corrections. Cette maquette est un fork du numéro 21, cleanée et restructurée.»
A big cheatsheet to dive into with nice croner cases encountered with HTLM2print and Médor :)
https://gitlab.constantvzw.org/medor/medor0/-/blob/master/cheatsheet.md
Private repos (because we don’t take time to make them public after the issue is launched :/)
https://gitlab.constantvzw.org/medor/medor{14..31}
https://gitlab.constantvzw.org/medor/numero{1..13}
medor/playground
Répertoire de tests pour la mise en page du magazine : essais typographiques, css grid tetris games, spicy styles. Aller !
A few tests based on HTML2print boilerplate.
PDF tools
tools.pdfutils
Initial (?) repo that was the basis for the rgb2cmyk repo (hosted on both Medor Gitlab and OSP)
The readme mentions the following features:
- Convert PDF RGB to only-Black
- Convert PDF from RGB to CMYK
- Convert PDF from RGB to CMYK with (black) Overprint
- Combine PDFs having different color modes (including remapping black to PMS spot color)
- Check color separations (a set of ghoscript/html scripts generating a webpage to preview CMYK seperation)
Problem: some of those scripts convert PDF to PS to PDF back which leads to issues, among them images with transparency that get pixelated… RGB2CMYK fork repo was an attempt at solving that by avoiding the PDF<>PS conversion but lack a lot of features.
tools.rgb2cmyk
Stripped-down, modernized version of the tools.pdfutils repo above.
It was an attempt to moved the RGB2CMYK script out of HTML2print in a spirit of de-coupling rgb2cmyk script from the other utilities (like checking color seperation). But in the end it is behind tools.pdfutils because it was updated.
A few more repo’s
There is overlap with the repo’s above, but here are some more repo’s made for Médor: