Print Authors Multiple Pages

[7fe]

For some reason the authors are spread across two pages when printing in Chrome in this example.

https://thomaspark.co/project/pubcss/demo/acm-sig-sample-web-theme.html

Maybe this is the intended behavior but I am not really sure. Also the abstract appears rather far down the page for some reason. I am trying to establish how to change the page break behavior but I am not sure yet.

[thomaspark]

Are you on Chrome? There's still a lot of weirdness when it comes to printing from browser, not to mention inconsistency between browser vendors. Firefox and Safari look completely different, and none are as intended. 😕

Maybe some CSS targeting @print could improve things, but pdf is still the way to go for reliable print jobs.

[7fe]

@thomaspark Yes Chrome. So how do I generate a reliable pdf if not using Chrome's print command?

[thomaspark]

You can use Prince on the command line to generate a PDF from your HTML. It handles a lot of the new CSS features better than the browsers.

https://github.com/thomaspark/pubcss#quick-start
https://www.princexml.com/

[7fe]

hmm I might invest some time into this. I really really dislike the idea of using a 3rd party software that isn't well incredibly popular for this(compared to Chrome anyways). I mean prince must be using webkit(I'm guessing) or something right? Which means the CSS is somewhere in there.

adding

.copyright{display:none}

fixes the first big issue

[thomaspark]

Understandable, check out #12 for work towards using Puppeteer instead.

[7fe]

So because HTML doesn't support footnotes natively I am throwing html out to probably use markdown or latex. HTML has no agreed upon syntax unfortunately that would allow for transporting to another language.