Our experiment to see if Prince can help AI agents make better PDFs! @simonw
news.ycombinator.com/item?id…
I couldn't resist Berkeley Mono from @berkeleygfx, it's such a delicious font and I love its take on engineering history!
Announcing the latest release of Allsorts, our Rust library for OpenType font shaping that now supports the Khmer, Lao, Thai, and Sinhala scripts and access to glyph contours. yeslogic.com/blog/allsorts-r…
Michael Day retweeted
Hello Prince 14!
🥂 CSS calc() support!
✨ Color emoji fonts and SVG fonts!
🔥 Multipass formatting with JavaScript!
🦄New column and page float features!
🎉 and, of course it produces tagged, accessible PDFs.
🆓 Free for non-commercial use.
princexml.com/releases/14/
Developing nuclear weapons is easier than developing a modern web rendering engine! 😆
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Michael Day retweeted
I just published a tool that I made for myself.
You write cooking recipes in Markdown, with a handful of easy to follow conventions, and it generates nice looking recipe cards in PDF that you can print.
Uses the amazing Prince XML by @yeslogic.
github.com/oscherler/recipe-…
ALT Pancake recipe in Markdown format with YAML metadata.
ALT Markdown pancake recipe converted to XHTML and processed with a Python script.
ALT Cover page of the pancake recipe card in PDF.
ALT Interior of the pancake recipe card in PDF.
Michael Day retweeted
The things I work on at @yeslogic are pretty fun. This is a test case I created for text containing emoji, rendered on a path in an SVG, converted to PDF by @prince_xml.
ALT A spiral of animal emoji.
Michael Day retweeted
OH: my job is pretty great, I get to research emoji!
— @wezm working on @prince_xml
Today we have open-sourced Allsorts, our font parser, shaping engine, and subsetter for OpenType, WOFF, and WOFF2 written in @rustlang! yeslogic.com/blog/allsorts-r…
Michael Day retweeted
Hurray! Today we released Prince 13, with support for CSS variables (aka custom properties), lots of goodies for non-Latin scripts like Arabic & Indic, & support for fragmenting single-column/row flex containers across multiple pages. Full list: princexml.com/releases/13/
Michael Day retweeted
If you like some thought-provoking questions about Unicode–OpenType Indic encoding–shaping, you’ve got to check out issues of n8willis/opentype-shaping-documents:
github.com/n8willis/opentype…
@hsivonen I love your writeup of encoding_rs, I wish every library offered that level of insight into the design choices made by the author!
Unicode and Mercury, two things we can't live without! mercurylang.org/
Michael Day retweeted
Designing For Print With CSS #aeasf smashingmagazine.com/2015/01…
Michael Day retweeted
It is so much fun working on a print publication, which will be formatted using CSS. "So this is for the web?" "No, it's for print." "But ... CSS?" Rinse. Repeat.
CSS. Not just for web browsers.
turns out Unicode NFC stands for No Frickin' Clue 😂 xitter.cf/ManishEarth/status/100…
