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Percollate is a command-line tool that turns web pages into beautifully formatted PDF, EPUB, or HTML files. Installation per NPM npm install -g percollate Once installed you can, for example, run this: percollate epub https://brm.us/at-layer -o css-at-layer.epub Percollate will automatically extract the main content (powered by Mozilla’s Readability.js), perform some enhancements on it (such as …
Mohamed Said recently wrote the book “Laravel Queues in Action”. To create the book he wrote it Markdown and then used his self-created tool ibis to generated the PDF and ePub versions. Installation per Composer: composer global require themsaid/ibis After which you start a new project with ibis init Check out the preview of “Laravel …
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Write your books and courses using Markdown, GitBook will convert it to a complete static website. Installable using npm. A companion app (pictured below) to create your books – in case you want a live preview along your edits – is also available. Building the book to a PDF/eBook is also possible … strongly considering …
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Line-by-line analysis of the second verse of 99 Problems by Jay-Z, from the perspective of a criminal procedure professor. The calculation Jay-Z has to make is whether, knowing that the car contains concealed contraband, he’s better off trying to flee or hoping that the police won’t find the drugs during the stop. This may be …
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Over the past few months, quite a few Javascript implementations to creating/displaying certain files without the need for native plugins have been created. Although some are still premature, the basic idea is there. Above that they clearly demonstrate the importance of the rendering/scripting speed improvements browser vendors have been/are implementing into their browsers. pdf.js: Rendering …
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