DeLaXed creates PDF documents interactively using HTML or Pug (a shorthand for HTML). It allows complex layouts to be defined with CSS and JavaScript, while writing the content in a friendly, minimal syntax close to Markdown or LaTeX.
And here are a few output examples:
Book -
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PDF
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Letter -
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PDF
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Resume -
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PDF
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Visit card -
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PDF
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Slides -
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PDF
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Report -
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PDF
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Paper -
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PDF
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Poster -
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PDF
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DeLaXed has support for Markdown, LaTeX-style mathematical equations (via MathJax), CSV conversion to HTML tables, plot generation (via Vega-Lite or Chart.js), and diagram generation (via mermaid). Many more features can be added simply by importing an existing JavaScript or CSS framework.
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Many of us prefer markup languages (Markdown, LaTeX, etc.) to GUI document-editors like MS Office or Google Docs. This is because markup languages make it easier to quickly write documents in a consistent style.
However, Markdown is limited to the title/sections/paragraphs structure, and LaTeX has obscure syntax and errors that also make it difficult to stray from the beaten track.
On the other hand, web technologies have never looked so good.
- Beautiful CSS frameworks make sure your documents look clean and modern.
- There are JavaScript libraries for pretty much anything: plotting, highlight code, rendering equations...
- Millions of people (and growing) know how to use these.
- Shorthand languages like Pug and SCSS are finally making it fun to write HTML and CSS.
- (Headless) web browsers can easily turn web documents into PDF, on any platform.
DeLaXed is an attempt at finding the most comfortable way to leverage this for desktop PDF creation.
DeLaXed is an open-source framework originally written by Zulko and released on Github under the ISC licence. Everyone is welcome to contribute!
Projects members:
- @noverby (Owner)