A few weeks ago at MIT Press in Boston, we had our first Paged Media event. Julie Blanc (pictured below), who works for Paged Media, wrote up a post to flesh out her awesome presentation…highly recommended reading if you enjoy geeking out about all this stuff:
Arthur Attwell is a friend and I’ve also been a fan of his work for a very long time (ever since his amazing work with Paperright https://story.paperight.com/author/arthurattwell/ ). He just posted an awesome post on Paged Media about his new project – Fire and Lion – and their paged media workflow…
From yesterday. Will post also to pagedmedia.org
The Paged Media meeting is today at MIT Publishing in Boston! Will post updates.
PagedMedia.org is launching a new community-led development at MIT Press on January 9, 2018. The project will develop a suite of Javascripts to paginate HTML/CSS in the browser, and to apply PagedMedia controls to paginated content for the purposes of exporting print-ready or display- friendly, PDFs from the browser.
This will be an Open Source initiative, appropriately licensed with the MIT license.
The January meeting will be the first meeting of the project and attending will be:
For further information please contact: adam@coko.foundation
PagedMedia.org is funded by the Shuttleworth Foundation.
Also posted here – https://www.pagedmedia.org/paged-media-open-source-initiative/
Through my Shuttleworth Fellowship, I am kicking off a new project this week – PagedMedia, focusing on the development of a JS implementation of PagedMedia CSS spec and pagination. It is a new project which addresses a problem I have been looking for ways to solve for a very long time, since 2010 or so.
Fred Chasen and Julie Blanc will be doing all the hard work. Both awesome people and I’m very excited to see this get started!!!