Paged.js example

[kbvernon]

Description

I don't know if this is helpful, but while people are waiting for Quarto support for Paged.js, I put together this example showing how to do it manually:

Site: kbvernon.github.io/quarto-pagedjs/
Repo: https://github.com/kbvernon/quarto-pagedjs

I'm probably doing something wrong, but it works for my needs. Have to generate a bunch of pre-filled forms soon, and, well, I hate LaTeX. I did some experiments with Typst, and I can confirm that it's way way way better than LaTeX (that's not saying much), but I already know HTML/CSS, so getting Paged.js working was way less effort.

Anyway, I'll stop rambling. As always, thanks for being awesome!

[jimjam-slam]

I'm 100% with you, @kbvernon! There's obviously still work to do to make Paged PDFs a first-class Quarto citizen, but you can get pretty far already with some basic styles.

If you want to compare notes, here's some of what I did to run off collections of Quarto docs as a PDF via Paged.js (or weasyprint, whch I tried first—but they both work pretty similarly): #2538 (reply in thread)

I'll be sure to check out the source on yours too!

[kbvernon]

Yeah, I'll have to experiment with it. First need to get pandoc to find pagedjs-cli.cmd...

But, anyway, thanks for your help!

[jimjam-slam]

Are you trying to run pandoc directly? Generally I found that if pagedjs-cli was on the path, quarto render worked fine!

Happy to help 😊

[kbvernon]

Yeah, I added pagedjs-cli.cmd to the path, but pandoc still can't find it. Trying to specify the full path in pdf-engine: ... doesn't work, either. Looks like there's an issue with pandoc + pagedjs on Windows machines: jgm/pandoc#8061.

[jimjam-slam]

Mmm, that's frustrating. I'm on a Mac, so I hadn't noticed. If you're feeling gusty, you could run a GitHub Actions workflow to render it on a Linux machine!

[kbvernon]

Hm... your approach using pdf-engine: pagedjs-cli appears to be working for me now. I think the fix might have been as simple as restarting my machine after adding to the path on Windows. I guess I was looking for a bug somewhere that wasn't just user error...

Scratch that. Still very buggy on Windows.