[TxMt] Re: New Bundle

[Allan Odgaard]

On 27/1/2006, at 8:19, Oliver Taylor wrote:

> [...] lack of support for paged-media styles the resulting document  
> does not print ideally.

Not sure what support you seek, but it is possible to give some page- 
break hints with CSS. For example for the TextMate manuals print  
style sheet I force a page break [1] after each chapter.

> When exporting a PDF from Safari it adds header information and  
> footer stuff, as well as a nice .25in margin on every side. I'd  
> like to change that, if you know how let me know.

For me it only prints headers/footers if I ask it to in the Safari  
pane of the Print dialog sheet:

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As for the margin, I have not tried it, but maybe one can set it with  
CSS on either HTML or Body.

> I've looked into using HTMLDoc and Prince to export the resulting  
> HTML document to a pdf by way of bypassing the build-in PDF  
> services but both of those cost money, something I'd like to avoid.  
> If you have any tips, let me know.

For the records, htmldoc is F/OSS and gratis.


[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/page.html#propdef-page-break-after