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hybrid-publishing-lab / publishing-converter

A development project from the Hybrid Publishing Lab, Leuphana University of Lüneburg Innovation Incubator, financed by the European Regional Development Fund and co-funded by the German federal state of Lower Saxony. Multi-format publishing transformation magic pipeline.
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wish: pages/document size #1

Open furter opened 9 years ago

furter commented 9 years ago

Could we have the pages/document size translated somewhere in the CSS? And then, how could it be used/adapted?

gimsieke commented 9 years ago

You mean, the page count? Which size do you mean? idml or html file size in bytes? Or just the page count? The page count is not something that can be extracted from the IDML because it may only be calculated when the document is layouted. We need to adapt the page name insertion script to InDesign files without a “main” story before we can more or less reliably insert the page names (= numbers, in most cases) into the text prior to exporting IDML. Then we may calculate a page count, but still not a reliable one. What do you need it for?

furter commented 9 years ago

I mean the dimensions of the page (the dimensions of the book), it could be useful to have a sense of scale.

gimsieke commented 9 years ago

Yes, this should be feasible. There may be different page/spread dimensions for each (master) spread though, but I think we can ignore that. We can select the first spread and convert its dimensions to a @page at rule in CSS.