Grandiose? I think not.
responsive-pdfsite (pronounced "respon-sive-pdf-site") (new name TK™) is a tool that generates responsive PDFs.
Yes.
Because I thought it would be cool.
It's a flask app that uses the (excellent) library borb to generate PDFs programmatically within Python.
Essentially, it is a webserver that serves a page that gets the viewport dimensions, sets them as cookies, and
redirects to a route that reads those cookies and generates a PDF.
- A major challenge I've noticed so far is that, by default, Chrome's PDF viewer opens with the sidebar open. I'm not sure how to fix this, as it's a browser-level issue. However, this means the PDF doesn't have the opportunity to take up the entire viewport, even though it's sized for it. I think this issue can be ameliorated with a message on the page to the end-user.
- This proof-of-concept only has one page. I want to define a site structure with a database or some data representation (YAML files?) and maybe even have something similar to a static-site generator, but for pdfsites.