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Typesetting tools
edit this page here: Typesetting tools
plus, a list of historic typesetting tools: Typesetting tools/Timelines
Canvas tools
- Scribus https://www.scribus.net/
- Inkscape http://inkscape.org/
- Laidout https://laidout.org/
- Electric Zine Maker https://alienmelon.itch.io/electric-zine-maker
Engines tools
CSS Print based (CSS Print)
- your browser (based on the supported CSS Print properties by that browser): use CTRL+P/CMD+P
- Weasyprint https://weasyprint.readthedocs.io/
- Paged.js https://www.pagedjs.org/
- wkhtmltopdf https://wkhtmltopdf.org/
- OSPKit (CSS Regions legacy support!) http://osp.kitchen/tools/ospkit/
P5.js based
- genzine https://github.com/munusshih/p5.genzine by Munus Shih and Iley Cao
Python based
- rinohtype http://www.mos6581.org/rinohtype/master/
- ReportLab https://www.reportlab.com/
- Flat http://xxyxyz.org/flat/
- PyX https://pyx-project.org/ (outputs to PostScript, PDF and SVG)
TeX based
- TeX https://tug.org/ + https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TeX
- LaTeX https://www.latex-project.org/
- ConTeXt https://wiki.contextgarden.net/
- texinfo https://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/manual/texinfo/html_node/Short-Sample-Texinfo-File.html
- tectonic https://tectonic-typesetting.github.io/
- lyx https://www.lyx.org/
XML based
- speedata https://showcase.speedata.de/en/
Misc
- PostScript https://www.adobe.com/products/postscript.html
- groff https://www.gnu.org/software/groff/
- SILE https://sile-typesetter.org/ (LaTeX-like)
- typst https://typst.app/ (custom markdown syntax)
- SATySFi https://github.com/gfngfn/SATySFi (LaTeX-like + OCaml-like)
- Patoline https://patoline.github.io/ (wiki/LaTeX/Ocaml-like)</onlyinclude>
See also
Web folklore tools
edit this list here: Web folklore tools
This will be an amazing list of tools
- https://glyphdrawing.club
- https://grid-drawing-club.netlify.app
- http://qaz.wtf/u/convert.cgi?text=hello
- http://xahlee.info/comp/unicode_index.html
- https://patorjk.com/software/taag/
- https://changaco.oy.lc/unicode-progress-bars/
- https://maxbittker.github.io/broider/
- https://alienmelon.itch.io/electric-zine-maker
- https://constraint.systems/ * tools!
- https://www.tooooools.app/
- https://kidpix.app/
- https://boockup.marco.land/
- https://cpreid2.github.io/blobSketch/
- https://nightphilosophy.github.io/avocado/
- https://draw-it-with-others.org/ DIWO tools ✨
- https://tholman.com/cursor-effects/
- https://asdf.us/asciiblaster/
- https://halftone.xoihazard.com/
CSS Print
- CSS Print examples on this wiki
- W3C CSS Print Community Group (launched in 2020, closed in December 2023)
- https://www.pagedmedia.org/library/ list of Javascript tools for pagination, hyphenation, baselines, kerning, font resizing, post-production, etc
- reload-in-place.js made by Nicolas Taffin, you're fingers will be so thankful for using this!!
Tutorials
Fonts
- https://usemodify.com An aggregator made by Raphäel Bastide
- https://www.design-research.be/by-womxn/ Badass Libre fonts by womxn
- https://velvetyne.fr/ French Libre fonts type foundry
- http://osp.kitchen/foundry/ The foundry of Brussel's Open Source Publishing
- http://www.peter-wiegel.de/ Weird and wonderful letters (mostly script and display) made by font-dabbler Peter Wiegel, for his personal foundry "Cat Fonts"
- https://justseeds.org/project/justseeds-open-type-project/ "The Justseeds Open Type Project creates open-access fonts for activists, organizers, and movement designers"
- https://typotheque.genderfluid.space/ The typotheque of Franco-Belgian collective Bye Bye Binary
Browser based tools
- https://glyphdrawing.club/ + https://blog.glyphdrawing.club/
- https://grid-drawing-club.netlify.app/
- http://qaz.wtf/u/convert.cgi?text=hello
- http://xahlee.info/comp/unicode_index.html
- https://patorjk.com/software/taag/
- https://changaco.oy.lc/unicode-progress-bars/
- https://maxbittker.github.io/broider/
Image editing
Dithering
- https://www.stochaster.org/
- https://www.evilmadscientist.com/2012/stipplegen2/
- https://beyondloom.com/tools/ditherpaint.html
Other lists!
- https://tinytools.directory/ → zines/books + print
- https://polytype.dev/ (a rosetta's stone for typesetting tools, quick demo's of many different typesetting tools)