What you'll build
The room sheet for Cartografías imaginarias, an invented exhibition of maps of imaginary places, as it goes to the printer, in Spanish on both editions of this page. Each 170 × 227 mm page sits on a sheet 22 mm larger that carries the bleed and the crop marks. On the cover an orange route crosses an archipelago in stepped greens and runs off the trim into the bleed. Inside, four rooms in ragged Karla open under waypoint kickers and an orange tab carries the folio off the fore-edge; the back cover sets a floor plan above a band of relief. The pen exports the press PDF, in CMYK with its fonts, bookmarks and page labels, and a greyscale proof. In the press PDF the maps and the plan come from print masters in hand-picked inks; the type, the tab and the waypoint rings take the plain conversion.
This recipe answers
- How do I make a print-ready PDF with bleed, crop marks, bookmarks, page labels and a colour space?
- How do I export a real PDF in the browser with the fonts embedded?
- How do I add a watermark, a background tint or a decorative image on every page?
The short answer
const BLEED = 3; // mm of artwork past the trim: the cover, the tab and the back band reach it
// Hook-up: config().page.cutLines. A mark starts markOffset outside the trim and runs 5 mm
// (markLength): an offset equal to the bleed keeps the marks off the artwork whatever BLEED
// is. Each page grows by doc.trimOffset a side, bleed + offset + mark: 11 mm here.
const cutLines = { enabled: true, bleed: mm(BLEED), markOffset: mm(BLEED) };
// renderToPdf ignores config.pdfGeneration, so every PDF setting goes in its options.
// `masters` holds print-master bytes by fileId (section 2 writes them).
function pressPdf(doc, colorSpace, { resources, masters }) {
// A resource names its master in svg.pdfFileId, but outside bundles renderToPdf only asks
// for svg.fileId: answer that id with the master (gotcha: pdf-master-resourcebytes).
const masterOf = new Map(resources.filter((r) => r.svg?.pdfFileId)
.map((r) => [r.svg.fileId, r.svg.pdfFileId]));
return renderToPdf(doc, {
// The kit's provider snaps weights and falls back to upright, since the PDF asks for every
// style of every family (gotcha: pdf-provider-all-styles); TrueType faces are subset.
fontProvider: fontsourceProvider,
colorSpace, // 'cmyk' for the press, 'grayscale' for a proof: a naive conversion, no ICC
// The proof keeps the SVGs, which its grey conversion can reach; masters stay in CMYK.
resourceBytes: (fileId) => (colorSpace === 'cmyk' && masters.get(masterOf.get(fileId)))
|| imageBytes(fileId),
}); // bookmarks (from the headings) and /PageLabels (from the folios) come by default
}
Bleed and crop marks on every page; a CMYK PDF that swaps in print masters
Ingredients
- Features
- Bleed and crop marksCMYK and grayscale PDFsSVG print mastersPDF exportFonts embedded in the PDFPDF bookmarksBleed bands and thumb tabsAnchoring design elementsPictures in page designsHeads by page roleRunning heads per sectionHeading stylesCovers, title pages and colophonsDesigned openersHeading attributesDocument metadataRunning heads and foliosFigures and tables as resourcesFigure and Table in your languageSemantic colour palette
- Also uses
- Citations that place figuresNumbered headingsPage and column breaksParagraph stylesCustom resource typesSection geometryUnnumbered chapters
- Type
- Karla, Space Grotesk, Space Mono (SIL OFL 1.1)
- Assets
- None: every picture is drawn in code
Method
#1 · Pick screen colours for their plates
const palette = {
ink: '#161616', // text: a neutral grey prints on the black plate alone (K91)
muted: '#666666', // the running heads, on black alone for the same reason (K60)
forest: '#0b3d2e', // the sea, the kickers, the back band: its plain build is a petrol teal
signal: '#ff6626', // route, waypoints, tab: red at full strength, so no black (C0 M60 Y85)
sage: '#9fb8a8', // high ground; small type on forest
paper: '#f4f1ea', // type on forest
};
// col(id): a palette-linked colour. It carries the hex too, because 1.4.1 paints design
// elements from the hex (gotcha: palette-skips-designs).
const col = (id) => ({ hex: palette[id], model: 'hex', paletteId: id });
const colorPalette = [
...Object.entries(palette).map(([id, hex]) => ({ id, name: id, value: { hex, model: 'hex' } })),
// The engine's defaults link to 'main-color': point it at the forest, so nothing prints blue.
{ id: 'main-color', name: 'forest (defaults)', value: { hex: palette.forest, model: 'hex' } },
];
With colorSpace: 'cmyk', postext-pdf converts each hex with a plain formula and no ICC profile: black is 1 minus the highest RGB channel, and cyan, magenta and yellow each come from their own channel and that black. A neutral grey therefore prints on the black plate alone (#161616 becomes K91), and a colour with one channel at full strength prints with no black: the orange #ff6626 becomes C0 M60 Y85 K0 in the tab, the rings and the route. Magenta comes out at 0 whenever green is the highest channel, so the forest becomes C82 M0 Y25 K76, which proofs as a petrol teal; the maps and the plan come from print masters for that reason (step 5), and the three-ink build stays only on the small bold forest type of the kickers, the figure reference and the caption labels.
#2 · A thumb tab that survives the guillotine
const TAB = { w: 10, h: 24 }; // the tab as it will be trimmed, mm; its foot is level with the text
const tab = (parity) => {
const edge = parity === 'even' ? 'bottom-left' : 'bottom-right'; // the fore-edge
const from = (to, y) => ({ anchor: { to, edge }, offset: { y: mm(y) } });
return [
// The box hangs from the bleed frame and BLEED of its width is trimmed off, so a cut that
// lands a millimetre outside the trim still leaves orange at the edge.
{ kind: 'box', id: `tab-${parity}`, style: { backgroundColor: col('signal') },
placement: { ...from('bleed', -(FOOT + BLEED)), size: { width: mm(TAB.w + BLEED),
height: mm(TAB.h) } } },
// The folio hangs from the trim frame ('page'), so it centres on the part left after the cut.
{ kind: 'text', id: `folio-${parity}`, content: '{pageNumber}', ...label, align: 'center',
fontSize: pt(11), letterSpacing: pt(0), color: col('ink'),
placement: { ...from('page', -FOOT), size: { width: mm(TAB.w), height: mm(TAB.h) } } },
].map((element) => ({ ...element, parity, pages: 'body' })); // never on the covers
};
const head = (parity, content) => ({ kind: 'text', id: `head-${parity}`, content, ...label,
color: col('muted'), parity, pages: 'body',
placement: { anchor: { to: 'container', edge: parity === 'even' ? 'top-left' : 'top-right' },
offset: { y: mm(11) } } });
const header = { elements: [head('even', '{title}'), head('odd', '{subtitle}')] };
const footer = { elements: [...tab('even'), ...tab('odd')] };
The tab's box hangs from the bleed frame and is BLEED wider than the finished tab, so a cut that lands a millimetre outside the trim still leaves orange at the edge; the folio hangs from the page frame, which is the trim, and centres on the 10 mm that remain. parity picks the pages each element appears on and edge changes with it to reach the fore-edge, while pages: 'body' keeps the tab and the running heads ({title} and {subtitle} from the frontmatter) off both covers, which count as openers because each starts with a heading that spans the page or breaks to a new one. Any header or footer element repeats this way, so an image with parity and pages puts a watermark or a decorative picture on every page; slots paint over the text, and a tint behind it goes in page.backgroundColor.
#3 · Artwork to the bleed, type inside the trim
const BAND = 44; // mm from the trim foot to the top of the back band
const onForest = { color: col('paper'), align: 'left', overflow: 'wrap' };
const art = (resourceId, edge) => ({ kind: 'image', id: resourceId, resourceId,
placement: { anchor: { to: 'bleed', edge }, size: { width: 'fill' } } }); // height: its ratio
// The map reserves no height (gotcha: opener-image-no-reserve), so the text puts a
// :::pagebreak right after the cover heading: without it the lead would start on the map.
// span: 'page' makes the cover an opener, so furniture set to pages: 'body' skips it.
const cover = { id: 'cover', numbered: false, span: 'page', advancedDesign: { enabled: true,
slot: { elements: [ // paint order: the map first, the type on top
art('cubierta', 'top-left'),
{ kind: 'text', id: 'kicker', content: '{attr.kicker}', ...label, color: col('sage'),
placement: { anchor: { to: 'container', edge: 'top-left' }, offset: { y: mm(6) } } },
{ kind: 'text', id: 'title', content: '{titleText}', fontFamily: 'Space Grotesk',
fontWeight: 700, fontSize: pt(50), lineHeight: 0.98, ...onForest,
placement: { anchor: { to: '#kicker', edge: 'below' }, offset: { y: mm(4) },
size: { width: mm(132) } } },
{ kind: 'text', id: 'subtitle', content: '{subtitle}', fontFamily: 'Karla', fontSize: pt(13),
...onForest, placement: { anchor: { to: '#title', edge: 'below' }, offset: { y: mm(5) } } },
] } },
footer: { elements: [ // the cover's own foot: dates and place, over open sea
{ kind: 'text', id: 'dates', content: '{attr.fechas}', ...label, color: col('paper'),
placement: { anchor: { to: 'container', edge: 'bottom-left' }, offset: { y: mm(-15) } } },
{ kind: 'text', id: 'place', content: '{attr.lugar}', ...label, color: col('sage'),
placement: { anchor: { to: '#dates', edge: 'below' }, offset: { y: mm(1.6) } } },
] } };
const back = { id: 'back', numbered: false, breakBefore: { enabled: true, parity: 'any' },
advancedDesign: room('{attr.kicker}'),
margins: { bottom: mm(BAND + 8) }, // the text stops 8 mm above the band
footer: { elements: [
art('banda', 'bottom-left'),
{ kind: 'text', id: 'venue', content: '{attr.lugar}', fontFamily: 'Space Grotesk',
fontWeight: 700, fontSize: pt(20), ...onForest, // on the band, level with the text edge
placement: { anchor: { to: '#banda', edge: 'align-top' }, offset: { x: mm(BLEED + OUTER),
y: mm(6) } } },
{ kind: 'text', id: 'address', content: '{attr.direccion}', fontFamily: 'Karla',
fontSize: pt(10), ...onForest,
placement: { anchor: { to: '#venue', edge: 'below' }, offset: { y: mm(1.5) } } },
{ kind: 'text', id: 'when', content: '{attr.fechas}', ...label, color: col('sage'),
placement: { anchor: { to: '#address', edge: 'below' }, offset: { y: mm(4) } } },
{ kind: 'text', id: 'colophon', content: '{attr.colofon}', ...label, fontWeight: 400,
fontSize: pt(6.3), letterSpacing: pt(0), textTransform: 'none', lineHeight: 1.4,
color: col('sage'), overflow: 'wrap',
placement: { anchor: { to: 'page', edge: 'bottom-left' }, offset: { x: mm(OUTER),
y: mm(-6) }, size: { width: mm(78) } } }, // 57 monospaced characters a line
] } };
cutLines adds the bleed, the mark offset and the 5 mm mark to every side of the page, 11 mm here, and since the short answer sets the offset equal to the bleed, the marks start at the bleed edge and run outwards, on the black plate. An image element anchored to the bleed with width: 'fill' takes that frame's width and keeps its own proportions: the cover map is drawn at 176 × 233 mm, the trim plus 3 mm a side, so it reaches the bleed edge where the crop marks start, while the type hangs from the text area, well inside the trim. The back cover is a heading style whose footer replaces the document's, with a band from the same generator anchored to the foot of the bleed and a bottom margin that stops the text 8 mm above it.
#4 · Headings that become bookmarks
headings: {
// A designed heading keeps its own text, hidden, for the bookmarks and the tags. Set it in
// a face the pages already load, or the PDF embeds Open Sans for that text alone.
fontFamily: 'Space Grotesk',
levels: [
// Rooms follow on: any headings object drops the H1 break (gotcha: headings-drop-h1-break),
// so it is stated off. The back cover breaks through its style, a :::pagebreak ends the
// front one. The template numbers kicker and bookmark: "Sala 1 Una isla en ninguna parte".
{ level: 1, numberingTemplate: 'Sala {1}', breakBefore: { enabled: false },
marginTop: pt(LEAD), advancedDesign: room('{number} · {attr.fecha}') },
],
},
renderToPdf builds the bookmarks from the headings, so each room is a level-1 heading that follows on without a page break, and numberingTemplate gives the kicker its {number} and the bookmark its prefix: the PDF lists the cover, "Sala 1 Una isla en ninguna parte" to "Sala 4 La isla del tesoro", and the practical information. A designed heading hides its own text but keeps it for the bookmarks and the tags; without fontFamily that hidden text is set in Open Sans 700, which the pages would load and the PDF embed for that text alone. The page labels follow page.pageNumbering, left at its default, decimal from 1, so page 3 in a PDF viewer is the page whose tab reads 3.
#5 · Print masters in exact inks
// C, M, Y, K in %, one build per colour of the drawings, matched to the screen colours on a
// proof. The plain conversion would print the sea C82 M0 Y25 K76, a petrol teal; here it is
// a four-ink green. The orange keeps its plain build, so the route matches the tab.
const INKS = { forest: [100, 45, 80, 55], shallows: [100, 50, 85, 40], coast: [90, 50, 85, 20],
lowland: [80, 40, 75, 5], upland: [50, 15, 45, 20], sage: [40, 20, 35, 0],
summit: [10, 5, 10, 0], tint: [5, 0, 5, 5], signal: [0, 60, 85, 0], paper: [0, 0, 0, 0] };
function pdfPage(w, h, shapes) { // w, h in mm; the content stream flips y to match the SVG
const s = 72 / 25.4; // pt per mm
const ink = (id, op) => `${INKS[id].map((v) => v / 100).join(' ')} ${op}`;
const ops = (d) => d.replace(/([MLCZ])([^MLCZ]*)/g,
(_, c, v) => `${v.trim()} ${{ M: 'm', L: 'l', C: 'c', Z: 'h' }[c]} `.trimStart());
const body = shapes.map(({ d, fill, stroke, width, dash }) => [
'q', fill && ink(fill, 'k'), stroke && ink(stroke, 'K'), stroke && `${width} w 1 J 1 j`,
dash && `[${dash.join(' ')}] 0 d`, ops(d), fill ? 'f' : 'S', 'Q',
].filter(Boolean).join(' ')).join('\n');
const stream = `${s} 0 0 ${-s} 0 ${h * s} cm\n${body}`;
const objects = ['<< /Type /Catalog /Pages 2 0 R >>', '<< /Type /Pages /Kids [3 0 R] /Count 1 >>',
`<< /Type /Page /Parent 2 0 R /MediaBox [0 0 ${n(w * s)} ${n(h * s)}] /Contents 4 0 R >>`,
`<< /Length ${stream.length} >>\nstream\n${stream}\nendstream`];
let pdf = '%PDF-1.4\n';
const offsets = objects.map((object, i) => {
const offset = pdf.length;
pdf += `${i + 1} 0 obj\n${object}\nendobj\n`;
return offset;
});
const xref = pdf.length;
pdf += `xref\n0 ${objects.length + 1}\n0000000000 65535 f \n`
+ offsets.map((o) => `${String(o).padStart(10, '0')} 00000 n \n`).join('')
+ `trailer\n<< /Size ${objects.length + 1} /Root 1 0 R >>\nstartxref\n${xref}\n%%EOF\n`;
return new TextEncoder().encode(pdf); // ASCII only, so string length = byte length
}
const masters = new Map(Object.entries(DRAWINGS) // by fileId: cubierta.pdf, banda.pdf, plano.pdf
.map(([id, [size, shapes]]) => [`${id}.pdf`, pdfPage(...size, shapes)]));
Each drawing is defined once, as paths. The art region turns them into the SVG the canvas paints, and this region writes the same paths into a one-page CMYK PDF with builds chosen so that a proof matches the screen, which puts the sea at C100 M45 Y80 K55 instead of the plain C82 M0 Y25 K76. Each resource names its master in svg.pdfFileId, pressPdf() in the short answer hands the master's bytes to renderToPdf under the SVG's id, and postext-pdf embeds that page unchanged, as vectors in the master's own inks. That holds for the plan, a figure, and for the cover map and the back band, which are design images. The greyscale proof gets the SVGs instead, because an embedded master is never converted and would stay in colour.
The whole recipe
// ═══ Postext Cookbook · Nº 024 · Print-ready PDF: bleed, crop marks and CMYK ═══════════ // https://postext.dev/en/cookbook/print-ready-pdf // Code: MIT · Text: original (CC BY 4.0) · Maps: generated in code (CC BY 4.0) // Fonts: Karla, Space Grotesk, Space Mono (SIL OFL 1.1) · Needs postext ≥ 1.4.1 // An exhibition leaflet set up for the press: bleed and crop marks on every page, and a CMYK // PDF that embeds its fonts and takes the maps and the floor plan from print masters. import { buildDocument, renderPageToCanvas, clearMeasurementCache, registerResourceImage, defaultResourceTypes, } from 'https://esm.sh/postext'; import { renderToPdf, decompressWoff2 } from 'https://esm.sh/postext-pdf'; const LANG = 'es'; // @lang: the language of the sample document (this recipe is Spanish only) const RECIPE = 'print-ready-pdf'; // ─── 1 · Design ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── // #region palette: screen colours picked for the plates the CMYK file prints them on const palette = { ink: '#161616', // text: a neutral grey prints on the black plate alone (K91) muted: '#666666', // the running heads, on black alone for the same reason (K60) forest: '#0b3d2e', // the sea, the kickers, the back band: its plain build is a petrol teal signal: '#ff6626', // route, waypoints, tab: red at full strength, so no black (C0 M60 Y85) sage: '#9fb8a8', // high ground; small type on forest paper: '#f4f1ea', // type on forest }; // col(id): a palette-linked colour. It carries the hex too, because 1.4.1 paints design // elements from the hex (gotcha: palette-skips-designs). const col = (id) => ({ hex: palette[id], model: 'hex', paletteId: id }); const colorPalette = [ ...Object.entries(palette).map(([id, hex]) => ({ id, name: id, value: { hex, model: 'hex' } })), // The engine's defaults link to 'main-color': point it at the forest, so nothing prints blue. { id: 'main-color', name: 'forest (defaults)', value: { hex: palette.forest, model: 'hex' } }, ]; // #endregion // #region answer: bleed and crop marks on every page; a CMYK PDF that swaps in print masters const BLEED = 3; // mm of artwork past the trim: the cover, the tab and the back band reach it // Hook-up: config().page.cutLines. A mark starts markOffset outside the trim and runs 5 mm // (markLength): an offset equal to the bleed keeps the marks off the artwork whatever BLEED // is. Each page grows by doc.trimOffset a side, bleed + offset + mark: 11 mm here. const cutLines = { enabled: true, bleed: mm(BLEED), markOffset: mm(BLEED) }; // renderToPdf ignores config.pdfGeneration, so every PDF setting goes in its options. // `masters` holds print-master bytes by fileId (section 2 writes them). function pressPdf(doc, colorSpace, { resources, masters }) { // A resource names its master in svg.pdfFileId, but outside bundles renderToPdf only asks // for svg.fileId: answer that id with the master (gotcha: pdf-master-resourcebytes). const masterOf = new Map(resources.filter((r) => r.svg?.pdfFileId) .map((r) => [r.svg.fileId, r.svg.pdfFileId])); return renderToPdf(doc, { // The kit's provider snaps weights and falls back to upright, since the PDF asks for every // style of every family (gotcha: pdf-provider-all-styles); TrueType faces are subset. fontProvider: fontsourceProvider, colorSpace, // 'cmyk' for the press, 'grayscale' for a proof: a naive conversion, no ICC // The proof keeps the SVGs, which its grey conversion can reach; masters stay in CMYK. resourceBytes: (fileId) => (colorSpace === 'cmyk' && masters.get(masterOf.get(fileId))) || imageBytes(fileId), }); // bookmarks (from the headings) and /PageLabels (from the folios) come by default } // #endregion const TRIM = [170, 227]; // mm: the leaflet as it leaves the guillotine const [TOP, FOOT, INNER, OUTER] = [20, 22, 18, 34]; // margins, mm, mirrored; the tab is outside const LEAD = 13.6; // body leading, pt const label = { fontFamily: 'Space Mono', fontWeight: 700, fontSize: pt(7.5), letterSpacing: pt(1.3), textTransform: 'uppercase', align: 'left' }; // default: centred // #region tab: a thumb tab off the fore-edge that carries the folio, on body pages only const TAB = { w: 10, h: 24 }; // the tab as it will be trimmed, mm; its foot is level with the text const tab = (parity) => { const edge = parity === 'even' ? 'bottom-left' : 'bottom-right'; // the fore-edge const from = (to, y) => ({ anchor: { to, edge }, offset: { y: mm(y) } }); return [ // The box hangs from the bleed frame and BLEED of its width is trimmed off, so a cut that // lands a millimetre outside the trim still leaves orange at the edge. { kind: 'box', id: `tab-${parity}`, style: { backgroundColor: col('signal') }, placement: { ...from('bleed', -(FOOT + BLEED)), size: { width: mm(TAB.w + BLEED), height: mm(TAB.h) } } }, // The folio hangs from the trim frame ('page'), so it centres on the part left after the cut. { kind: 'text', id: `folio-${parity}`, content: '{pageNumber}', ...label, align: 'center', fontSize: pt(11), letterSpacing: pt(0), color: col('ink'), placement: { ...from('page', -FOOT), size: { width: mm(TAB.w), height: mm(TAB.h) } } }, ].map((element) => ({ ...element, parity, pages: 'body' })); // never on the covers }; const head = (parity, content) => ({ kind: 'text', id: `head-${parity}`, content, ...label, color: col('muted'), parity, pages: 'body', placement: { anchor: { to: 'container', edge: parity === 'even' ? 'top-left' : 'top-right' }, offset: { y: mm(11) } } }); const header = { elements: [head('even', '{title}'), head('odd', '{subtitle}')] }; const footer = { elements: [...tab('even'), ...tab('odd')] }; // #endregion const room = (kicker) => ({ enabled: true, slot: { elements: [ // a waypoint, kicker and title { kind: 'box', id: 'stop', style: { backgroundColor: col('paper'), borderColor: col('signal'), borderWidth: mm(0.9), borderRadius: mm(1.7) }, placement: { anchor: { to: 'container', edge: 'top-left' }, size: { width: mm(3.4), height: mm(3.4) } } }, { kind: 'text', id: 'kicker', content: kicker, ...label, color: col('forest'), placement: { anchor: { to: '#stop', edge: 'right-of' }, offset: { x: mm(2.2) } } }, { kind: 'text', id: 'title', content: '{titleText}', fontFamily: 'Space Grotesk', fontWeight: 700, fontSize: pt(17), lineHeight: 1.08, color: col('ink'), align: 'left', overflow: 'wrap', // design text ends in '…' by default (gotcha: overflow-ellipsis-default) placement: { anchor: { to: '#stop', edge: 'below' }, offset: { y: mm(1.2) }, size: { width: 'fill' } } }, ] } }); // #region covers: the front art runs bleed to bleed; the back band bleeds on three sides const BAND = 44; // mm from the trim foot to the top of the back band const onForest = { color: col('paper'), align: 'left', overflow: 'wrap' }; const art = (resourceId, edge) => ({ kind: 'image', id: resourceId, resourceId, placement: { anchor: { to: 'bleed', edge }, size: { width: 'fill' } } }); // height: its ratio // The map reserves no height (gotcha: opener-image-no-reserve), so the text puts a // :::pagebreak right after the cover heading: without it the lead would start on the map. // span: 'page' makes the cover an opener, so furniture set to pages: 'body' skips it. const cover = { id: 'cover', numbered: false, span: 'page', advancedDesign: { enabled: true, slot: { elements: [ // paint order: the map first, the type on top art('cubierta', 'top-left'), { kind: 'text', id: 'kicker', content: '{attr.kicker}', ...label, color: col('sage'), placement: { anchor: { to: 'container', edge: 'top-left' }, offset: { y: mm(6) } } }, { kind: 'text', id: 'title', content: '{titleText}', fontFamily: 'Space Grotesk', fontWeight: 700, fontSize: pt(50), lineHeight: 0.98, ...onForest, placement: { anchor: { to: '#kicker', edge: 'below' }, offset: { y: mm(4) }, size: { width: mm(132) } } }, { kind: 'text', id: 'subtitle', content: '{subtitle}', fontFamily: 'Karla', fontSize: pt(13), ...onForest, placement: { anchor: { to: '#title', edge: 'below' }, offset: { y: mm(5) } } }, ] } }, footer: { elements: [ // the cover's own foot: dates and place, over open sea { kind: 'text', id: 'dates', content: '{attr.fechas}', ...label, color: col('paper'), placement: { anchor: { to: 'container', edge: 'bottom-left' }, offset: { y: mm(-15) } } }, { kind: 'text', id: 'place', content: '{attr.lugar}', ...label, color: col('sage'), placement: { anchor: { to: '#dates', edge: 'below' }, offset: { y: mm(1.6) } } }, ] } }; const back = { id: 'back', numbered: false, breakBefore: { enabled: true, parity: 'any' }, advancedDesign: room('{attr.kicker}'), margins: { bottom: mm(BAND + 8) }, // the text stops 8 mm above the band footer: { elements: [ art('banda', 'bottom-left'), { kind: 'text', id: 'venue', content: '{attr.lugar}', fontFamily: 'Space Grotesk', fontWeight: 700, fontSize: pt(20), ...onForest, // on the band, level with the text edge placement: { anchor: { to: '#banda', edge: 'align-top' }, offset: { x: mm(BLEED + OUTER), y: mm(6) } } }, { kind: 'text', id: 'address', content: '{attr.direccion}', fontFamily: 'Karla', fontSize: pt(10), ...onForest, placement: { anchor: { to: '#venue', edge: 'below' }, offset: { y: mm(1.5) } } }, { kind: 'text', id: 'when', content: '{attr.fechas}', ...label, color: col('sage'), placement: { anchor: { to: '#address', edge: 'below' }, offset: { y: mm(4) } } }, { kind: 'text', id: 'colophon', content: '{attr.colofon}', ...label, fontWeight: 400, fontSize: pt(6.3), letterSpacing: pt(0), textTransform: 'none', lineHeight: 1.4, color: col('sage'), overflow: 'wrap', placement: { anchor: { to: 'page', edge: 'bottom-left' }, offset: { x: mm(OUTER), y: mm(-6) }, size: { width: mm(78) } } }, // 57 monospaced characters a line ] } }; // #endregion const config = () => ({ // a factory: configs are cached by identity (gotcha: config-cache-identity) locale: LANG, // hyphenation (for justified text only) and the PDF's /Lang // "Figura 1": Spanish names by hand (gotcha: resource-types-locale), one running count resourceTypes: defaultResourceTypes(LANG).map((type) => ({ ...type, numberingTemplate: '{n}', resetOn: 'never' })), colorPalette, headingStyles: [cover, back], page: { width: mm(TRIM[0]), height: mm(TRIM[1]), cutLines, margins: { top: mm(TOP), bottom: mm(FOOT), left: mm(INNER), right: mm(OUTER), mirror: true } }, layout: { layoutType: 'single' }, bodyText: { fontFamily: 'Karla', fontSize: pt(9.6), lineHeight: pt(LEAD), color: col('ink'), boldColor: col('ink'), italicColor: col('ink'), referenceColor: col('forest'), // Ragged, like the labels. Ragged text is never hyphenated (gotcha: ragged-no-hyphenation); // the 118 mm measure keeps the rag shallow. textAlign: 'left', firstLineIndent: mm(0), paragraphSpacing: true }, // #region levels: every room a numbered H1 with no page break, so each is a PDF bookmark headings: { // A designed heading keeps its own text, hidden, for the bookmarks and the tags. Set it in // a face the pages already load, or the PDF embeds Open Sans for that text alone. fontFamily: 'Space Grotesk', levels: [ // Rooms follow on: any headings object drops the H1 break (gotcha: headings-drop-h1-break), // so it is stated off. The back cover breaks through its style, a :::pagebreak ends the // front one. The template numbers kicker and bookmark: "Sala 1 Una isla en ninguna parte". { level: 1, numberingTemplate: 'Sala {1}', breakBefore: { enabled: false }, marginTop: pt(LEAD), advancedDesign: room('{number} · {attr.fecha}') }, ], }, // #endregion paragraphStyles: [ // Only size and face change: styles inherit the rest. 'ficha' sets each room's object label. { id: 'lead', fontFamily: 'Space Grotesk', fontSize: pt(12), lineHeight: pt(16.5) }, { id: 'ficha', fontFamily: 'Space Mono', fontSize: pt(7), lineHeight: pt(10.5) }, ], // Captions in the label face, like the object labels; the label in forest (orange is 2.9:1). captionStyle: { fontFamily: 'Space Mono', fontSize: pt(7.5), labelColor: col('forest') }, header, footer, }); // ─── 2 · Content ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── const markdown = String.raw`---Markdown sample · 56 lines · content.es.md
title: "Cartografías imaginarias" subtitle: "Mapas de lugares que nunca existieron" author: "Biblioteca del Faro" --- # Cartografías imaginarias {style="cover" kicker="Exposición temporal · Ala Norte" fechas="Del 14 de enero al 29 de abril de 2027" lugar="Biblioteca del Faro · Puerto Alba"} :::pagebreak :::paragraphs{style="lead"} La exposición reúne en facsímil cuatro mapas de lugares inventados, impresos entre 1516 y 1883. Tres dibujan las costas de tierras que nadie ha pisado: la isla de Utopía, el país de la Ternura y la isla del tesoro. El cuarto, la carta marina de un poema de Lewis Carroll, deja el mar en blanco. Las salas siguen el orden de las fechas y se recorren en el sentido de las agujas del reloj. ::: # Una isla en ninguna parte {fecha="1516"} En 1516 Tomás Moro publicó en Lovaina un librito en latín sobre el mejor estado de una república y sobre una isla nueva llamada Utopía. El nombre viene del griego *ou tópos*, «ningún lugar». La isla tiene forma de media luna, doscientas millas de anchura en su parte central y cincuenta y cuatro ciudades casi idénticas. La capital, Amauroto, «la ciudad oscura», se levanta junto al Anidro, «el río sin agua». Moro disfraza de geografía un tratado político, y el grabado de la primera edición rotula en latín la capital, el nacimiento del Anidro y su desembocadura. :::paragraphs{style="ficha"} Tomás Moro, *Libellus… deque nova insula Utopia*. Lovaina: Dirk Martens, 1516. Facsímil. «Utopiae insulae figura», grabado de la primera edición. ::: # El país de la Ternura {fecha="1654"} Madeleine de Scudéry publicó en 1654 el primero de los diez tomos de *Clélie*, una novela ambientada en la Roma antigua, e incluyó en él un mapa grabado, la *Carte de Tendre*. Desde Nueva Amistad salen tres caminos hacia tres ciudades llamadas Ternura: la de la Inclinación, la de la Estima y la del Reconocimiento. El primero sigue un río y es el más rápido; los otros dos atraviesan aldeas con nombres de virtudes, como Sinceridad o Generosidad. Quien se desvía acaba en el lago de la Indiferencia, y más allá del mar Peligroso el grabado deja unas Tierras Desconocidas. :::paragraphs{style="ficha"} Madeleine de Scudéry, *Clélie, histoire romaine*, tomo I. París: Augustin Courbé, 1654. Facsímil. «Carte de Tendre», grabado de François Chauveau. ::: # El océano en blanco {fecha="1876"} En *La caza del Snark*, el poema que Lewis Carroll publicó en 1876 con el subtítulo «Una agonía en ocho cantos», el Campanero, que capitanea a ocho hombres y un castor, compra una gran carta del mar sin el menor rastro de tierra, y la tripulación la celebra porque, por fin, todos la entienden. Cuando el capitán pregunta de qué sirven los polos, los trópicos y los meridianos de Mercator, los marineros contestan que son simples signos convencionales. La carta es «un vacío perfecto y absoluto», y el libro la imprimió tal cual en el segundo canto: un rectángulo en blanco con unos pocos rótulos en el marco. El Campanero, para quien todo lo que dice tres veces es verdad, no tiene otro método para cruzar el océano que tocar la campana, y en la travesía el bauprés se confunde a veces con el timón, algo que según él ocurre a menudo en los climas tropicales. :::paragraphs{style="ficha"} Lewis Carroll, *The Hunting of the Snark*, con ilustraciones de Henry Holiday. Londres: Macmillan, 1876. Facsímil. Carta del océano, a tamaño real. ::: # La isla del tesoro {fecha="1881"} En el verano de 1881, en Braemar, en las Tierras Altas de Escocia, Robert Louis Stevenson dibujó y coloreó una isla para entretener a su hijastro, Lloyd Osbourne, de trece años. De aquel mapa salió la novela, titulada al principio *The Sea Cook*, que se publicó por entregas en la revista juvenil *Young Folks* entre octubre de 1881 y enero de 1882, firmada por un tal «capitán George North», y como libro en 1883. En 1894 contó en la revista *The Idler* que el mapa original, enviado con el manuscrito a la editorial Cassell, nunca llegó, y que tuvo que rehacerlo al revés, a partir del libro: hizo inventario de cada alusión y ajustó con un compás la isla a esos datos. El nuevo mapa se dibujó en el despacho de su padre, con ballenas y barcos, y Thomas Stevenson, ingeniero de faros, falsificó con esmero la firma del capitán Flint y las instrucciones de navegación de Billy Bones. Es el que abre, como frontispicio, la primera edición, y se expone junto al número de *The Idler* en el que Stevenson cuenta la pérdida. :::paragraphs{style="ficha"} Robert Louis Stevenson, *Treasure Island*. Londres: Cassell & Company, 1883. Facsímil. «My First Book: Treasure Island», en *The Idler*, 1894. ::: # Información práctica {style="back" kicker="Visita" lugar="Biblioteca del Faro" direccion="Paseo del Muelle, 12 · Puerto Alba" fechas="Del 14 de enero al 29 de abril de 2027" colofon="Compuesto en Karla, Space Grotesk y Space Mono (SIL OFL). Textos: CC BY 4.0; mapas dibujados en código."} El plano de la :ref{id="plano" style="full" case="lower"} traza el recorrido, que empieza y acaba en el vestíbulo. **Horario.** De martes a sábado, de 10:00 a 14:00 y de 17:00 a 20:00; domingos y festivos, de 10:00 a 14:00. Los lunes, cerrado. **Entrada libre.** Visitas guiadas los sábados a las 12:00, sin reserva, en grupos de hasta veinte personas. **Taller familiar.** «Dibuja tu isla», para niños de 6 a 12 años, los domingos a las 11:00. Inscripción en la recepción. **Accesibilidad.** Todas las salas están a pie de calle. En la recepción hay lupas y los textos de sala en letra grande.`; // content.<lang>.md, inlined by the Cookbook // #region art: an invented archipelago and a floor plan, drawn as paths // Paths and flat fills only: no <marker>, filter or mask, so the PDF keeps every drawing // vector (gotcha: svg-no-marker-filters). const PX = 12; // declared pixels per mm. Only the ratio counts: SVG figures fill their frame const rng = (seed) => () => { // Mulberry32: the same maps on every run seed = (seed + 0x6d2b79f5) | 0; let t = Math.imul(seed ^ (seed >>> 15), 1 | seed); t = (t + Math.imul(t ^ (t >>> 7), 61 | t)) ^ t; return ((t ^ (t >>> 14)) >>> 0) / 4294967296; }; const n = (v) => Math.round(v * 100) / 100; const xy = ([x, y]) => `${n(x)} ${n(y)}`; const spline = (pts, closed) => { // Catmull-Rom through the points, as cubic Béziers const last = pts.length - 1; const at = (i) => pts[closed ? (i + pts.length) % pts.length : Math.max(0, Math.min(last, i))]; const segs = pts.slice(0, closed ? pts.length : -1).map((p, i) => { const [a, b, c, d] = [at(i - 1), p, at(i + 1), at(i + 2)]; return `C${xy([b[0] + (c[0] - a[0]) / 6, b[1] + (c[1] - a[1]) / 6])} ` + `${xy([c[0] - (d[0] - b[0]) / 6, c[1] - (d[1] - b[1]) / 6])} ${xy(c)}`; }); return `M${xy(pts[0])}${segs.join('')}${closed ? 'Z' : ''}`; }; const disc = (x, y, r, k = 0.5523 * r) => `M${xy([x - r, y])}C${xy([x - r, y - k])} ` + `${xy([x - k, y - r])} ${xy([x, y - r])}C${xy([x + k, y - r])} ${xy([x + r, y - k])} ` + `${xy([x + r, y])}C${xy([x + r, y + k])} ${xy([x + k, y + r])} ${xy([x, y + r])}` + `C${xy([x - k, y + r])} ${xy([x - r, y + k])} ${xy([x - r, y])}Z`; const poly = (...pts) => `M${pts.map(xy).join('L')}`; const box = (x, y, w, h) => `${poly([x, y], [x + w, y], [x + w, y + h], [x, y + h])}Z`; // The drawings' own colours: the plan's floor, the sea near a coast, the relief bands. const ART = { tint: '#e3ebe4', shallows: '#0f4a37', coast: '#1f5c45', lowland: '#3f7d5f', upland: '#6f9a80', summit: '#dfe7dc' }; const hex = (id) => palette[id] ?? ART[id]; const toSvg = (w, h, shapes) => `<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="${w * PX}" ` + `height="${h * PX}" viewBox="0 0 ${w} ${h}">${shapes.map(({ d, fill, stroke, width, dash }) => `<path d="${d}" fill="${fill ? hex(fill) : 'none'}"${stroke ? ` stroke="${hex(stroke)}" ` + `stroke-width="${width}" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round"` : ''}${dash ? ` stroke-dasharray="${dash.join(' ')}"` : ''}/>`).join('')}</svg>`; // Elevation: filled bands from the coast to the summit (thin contour lines alias in thumbnails). const RELIEF = ['coast', 'lowland', 'upland', 'sage', 'summit']; // An island is a few overlapping lobes. Each band is filled for every lobe, so shapes of one // colour merge into a single coast with saddles and more than one summit. function island(lobes, seed, aspect = 0.8) { const rand = rng(seed); return lobes.map(([cx, cy, r]) => { const waves = [2, 3, 4, 6].map((k) => [k, (rand() * 0.26) / Math.sqrt(k), rand() * 6.28]); const peak = [cx + (rand() - 0.5) * r * 0.6, cy + (rand() - 0.5) * r * 0.5]; // The contour at s × r (plus `grow` mm); higher contours drift towards the summit. return (s, grow = 0, drift = 0) => Array.from({ length: 64 }, (_, i) => { const a = (i / 64) * Math.PI * 2; const bump = waves.reduce((sum, [k, amp, ph]) => sum + amp * Math.sin(k * a + ph + drift), 0); const [ox, oy] = [peak[0] + (cx - peak[0]) * s, peak[1] + (cy - peak[1]) * s]; const rr = r * s * (1 + bump) + grow; return [ox + Math.cos(a) * rr, oy + Math.sin(a) * rr * aspect]; }); }); } function terrain(w, h, isles, route = []) { const lobes = isles.flat(); const fillAll = (fill, s, grow = 0, drift = 0) => lobes.map((f) => ({ d: spline(f(s, grow, drift), true), fill })); const shapes = [{ d: box(0, 0, w, h), fill: 'forest' }, ...fillAll(RELIEF[0], 1.55, 1, 0.3), ...fillAll('forest', 1.55, 0, 0.3), // a 1 mm sea contour ...fillAll('shallows', 1.28), ...RELIEF.flatMap((fill, i) => fillAll(fill, 1 - i * 0.19, 0, i * 0.22))]; // coast to summit if (route.length) { shapes.push({ d: spline(route, false), stroke: 'signal', width: 1.5, dash: [3.2, 2.4] }); for (const [x, y] of route.slice(1, -1)) { shapes.push({ d: disc(x, y, 2.7), fill: 'signal' }, { d: disc(x, y, 1.1), fill: 'paper' }); } } return shapes; } // The cover: the trim plus the bleed on every side, 176 × 233 mm. The route enters from the // bleed and leaves through it, past four stops, one per room. const COVER = TRIM.map((side) => side + 2 * BLEED); const SCALE = [BLEED + TRIM[0] - OUTER - 20, BLEED + 209]; // the scale bar's corner const coverShapes = [...terrain(...COVER, [ island([[112, 152, 32], [140, 170, 24], [128, 128, 18]], 7), island([[36, 134, 14], [49, 145, 9]], 11), island([[151, 77, 10]], 3)], [[-4, 202], [40, 137], [98, 160], [136, 150], [151, 78], [182, 36]]), // A scale bar ending on the recto's text edge, level with the dates (trim → bleed frame). ...[0, 2].map((i) => ({ d: box(SCALE[0] + i * 5, SCALE[1], 5, 1.4), fill: 'paper' })), { d: box(...SCALE, 20, 1.4), stroke: 'paper', width: 0.3 }]; const BANDART = [COVER[0], BAND + BLEED]; // the back band, from the bleed's foot const bandShapes = terrain(...BANDART, [ // the back band: the same sea, another coast island([[160, 46, 24], [140, 56, 12], [176, 30, 14]], 5, 0.62), island([[4, 26, 13]], 9, 0.7)]); // an islet cut by the trim: its bleed is on the sheet // The floor plan, 118 × 54 mm: walls with doorways, cases, and the route with numbered stops. // Stroked numerals in a 0.6 × 1 box: SVG text gets none of the web fonts (gotcha: svg-no-webfonts). const DIGITS = { 1: 'M0.14 0.22L0.36 0L0.36 1', 2: 'M0.04 0.24C0.08 -0.06 0.58 -0.06 0.56 0.28C0.54 0.52 0.04 0.7 0.04 1L0.58 1', 3: 'M0.06 0L0.56 0L0.28 0.38C0.64 0.36 0.66 1 0.28 1C0.16 1 0.06 0.96 0.02 0.88', 4: 'M0.44 1L0.44 0L0.02 0.66L0.6 0.66', }; const glyph = (k, x, y, size) => DIGITS[k].replace(/(-?[\d.]+) (-?[\d.]+)/g, (_, a, b) => xy([x + (a - 0.3) * size, y + (b - 0.5) * size])); const PLAN = [118, 54]; const STOPS = [[20, 37], [20, 13], [79, 13], [98, 37]]; // rooms 1 to 4, clockwise const planShapes = [ { d: box(1, 1, 116, 48), fill: 'tint' }, // the floor: four rooms round the vestibule ...[[6, 42, 14, 4], [23, 42, 12, 4], [5, 4, 4, 14], [50, 17, 22, 4], [86, 4, 24, 4], [110, 30, 4, 14], [84, 44, 22, 3]].map((r) => ({ d: box(...r), fill: 'sage' })), // cases ...[[[52, 49], [1, 49], [1, 1], [117, 1], [117, 49], [66, 49]], // walls; the gaps are doors [[1, 25], [15, 25]], [[25, 25], [40, 25]], [[40, 1], [40, 8]], [[40, 17], [40, 33]], [[40, 42], [40, 49]], [[40, 25], [93, 25]], [[103, 25], [117, 25]], [[78, 25], [78, 33]], [[78, 42], [78, 49]]].map((pts) => ({ d: poly(...pts), stroke: 'forest', width: 1.2 })), // The route starts and ends in the vestibule, just inside the door. { d: poly([56, 45], [56, 37], [20, 37], [20, 13], [98, 13], [98, 37], [62, 37], [62, 45]), stroke: 'signal', width: 0.9, dash: [2.2, 1.7] }, { d: `${poly([53, 54], [56, 50.4], [59, 54])}Z`, fill: 'signal' }, // the way in ...STOPS.flatMap(([x, y], i) => [{ d: disc(x, y, 3.3), fill: 'signal' }, { d: glyph(i + 1, x, y, 3.4), stroke: 'paper', width: 0.5 }]), ]; // Each drawing by resource id: its size in mm and its shapes. const DRAWINGS = { cubierta: [COVER, coverShapes], banda: [BANDART, bandShapes], plano: [PLAN, planShapes] }; // #endregion // #region master: print masters, one-page PDFs written in the inks the designer chose // C, M, Y, K in %, one build per colour of the drawings, matched to the screen colours on a // proof. The plain conversion would print the sea C82 M0 Y25 K76, a petrol teal; here it is // a four-ink green. The orange keeps its plain build, so the route matches the tab. const INKS = { forest: [100, 45, 80, 55], shallows: [100, 50, 85, 40], coast: [90, 50, 85, 20], lowland: [80, 40, 75, 5], upland: [50, 15, 45, 20], sage: [40, 20, 35, 0], summit: [10, 5, 10, 0], tint: [5, 0, 5, 5], signal: [0, 60, 85, 0], paper: [0, 0, 0, 0] }; function pdfPage(w, h, shapes) { // w, h in mm; the content stream flips y to match the SVG const s = 72 / 25.4; // pt per mm const ink = (id, op) => `${INKS[id].map((v) => v / 100).join(' ')} ${op}`; const ops = (d) => d.replace(/([MLCZ])([^MLCZ]*)/g, (_, c, v) => `${v.trim()} ${{ M: 'm', L: 'l', C: 'c', Z: 'h' }[c]} `.trimStart()); const body = shapes.map(({ d, fill, stroke, width, dash }) => [ 'q', fill && ink(fill, 'k'), stroke && ink(stroke, 'K'), stroke && `${width} w 1 J 1 j`, dash && `[${dash.join(' ')}] 0 d`, ops(d), fill ? 'f' : 'S', 'Q', ].filter(Boolean).join(' ')).join('\n'); const stream = `${s} 0 0 ${-s} 0 ${h * s} cm\n${body}`; const objects = ['<< /Type /Catalog /Pages 2 0 R >>', '<< /Type /Pages /Kids [3 0 R] /Count 1 >>', `<< /Type /Page /Parent 2 0 R /MediaBox [0 0 ${n(w * s)} ${n(h * s)}] /Contents 4 0 R >>`, `<< /Length ${stream.length} >>\nstream\n${stream}\nendstream`]; let pdf = '%PDF-1.4\n'; const offsets = objects.map((object, i) => { const offset = pdf.length; pdf += `${i + 1} 0 obj\n${object}\nendobj\n`; return offset; }); const xref = pdf.length; pdf += `xref\n0 ${objects.length + 1}\n0000000000 65535 f \n` + offsets.map((o) => `${String(o).padStart(10, '0')} 00000 n \n`).join('') + `trailer\n<< /Size ${objects.length + 1} /Root 1 0 R >>\nstartxref\n${xref}\n%%EOF\n`; return new TextEncoder().encode(pdf); // ASCII only, so string length = byte length } const masters = new Map(Object.entries(DRAWINGS) // by fileId: cubierta.pdf, banda.pdf, plano.pdf .map(([id, [size, shapes]]) => [`${id}.pdf`, pdfPage(...size, shapes)])); // #endregion // Every drawing is an SVG for the screen and names its print master for the press. const svgResource = (id, extra) => ({ id, typeId: 'figure', kind: 'svg', createdAt: 0, updatedAt: 0, ...extra, svg: { fileId: `${id}.svg`, pdfFileId: `${id}.pdf`, width: DRAWINGS[id][0][0] * PX, height: DRAWINGS[id][0][1] * PX } }); const resources = [ svgResource('cubierta', { altText: 'Islas inventadas en verdes escalonados sobre un mar ' + 'verde oscuro, cruzadas por una ruta naranja con cuatro paradas.' }), svgResource('banda', { altText: 'La costa de una isla inventada.' }), svgResource('plano', { caption: 'Plano de la exposición, con el itinerario en naranja.', altText: 'Plano: cuatro salas alrededor del vestíbulo y un itinerario ' + 'naranja que las recorre en el sentido de las agujas del reloj.' }), ]; // ─── 3 · Fonts ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── // Every face the pages use. Layout measures with the browser's fonts, so the kit loads them // from Fontsource before the first build (gotcha: fonts-first); the PDF embeds the same files, // Fontsource's latin subsets, which cover Spanish (gotcha: latin-subset). const FONTS = { Karla: ['400', '400i', '700'], 'Space Grotesk': ['400', '700'], 'Space Mono': ['400', '400i', '700'] }; // ─── 4 · Build & show ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────── await loadFonts(FONTS, markdown); await Promise.all(Object.entries(DRAWINGS) .map(([id, [size, shapes]]) => loadSvg(`${id}.svg`, toSvg(...size, shapes)))); const doc = await buildWithFonts(() => buildDocument({ markdown, resources }, config()), markdown); showPages(doc, { title: 'Cartografías imaginarias · PDF listo para imprenta' }); const inputs = { resources, masters }; offerPdf(() => pressPdf(doc, 'cmyk', inputs), `${RECIPE}.pdf`); // the file for the press offerPdf(() => pressPdf(doc, 'grayscale', inputs), `${RECIPE}-proof.pdf`); // a proof to read // The kit names both buttons alike; once built, each download link carries its file name. const button = (file) => document.querySelector(`[data-postext-pdf="${file}"]`); button(`${RECIPE}.pdf`).textContent = 'Press PDF (CMYK)'; button(`${RECIPE}-proof.pdf`).textContent = 'Greyscale proof';Kit · core, fonts, viewer, pdf, images: the same in every recipe · 310 lines
// ─── Kit ── helpers shared by every Cookbook recipe · postext.dev/cookbook ───── // ─── Kit · core v1 ── the same in every recipe · postext.dev/cookbook ───────── function mm(value) { return { value, unit: 'mm' }; } function pt(value) { return { value, unit: 'pt' }; } function em(value) { return { value, unit: 'em' }; } /** The sample language's string: t({ en: 'Figure', es: 'Figura' }). */ function t(strings) { return strings[LANG] ?? Object.values(strings)[0]; } /** A file in this recipe's assets folder, served from the Postext repo by jsDelivr. */ function asset(file) { return `https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/drnachio/postext@main/cookbook/${RECIPE}/assets/${file}`; } // ─── Kit · fonts v1 ── the same in every recipe · postext.dev/cookbook ──────── // Postext measures text with the faces the browser has loaded, and caches the // widths, so every face must be ready before the first build. Faces come from // Fontsource: the same static files the PDF embeds, so screen and PDF agree. /** faces = { 'Family Name': ['400', '400i', '700'] }. `text` is the sample: * letters beyond Latin-1 (č, ł, ő…) also load the latin-ext files. With * `optional`, a face Fontsource does not ship is skipped instead of failing. * Resolves to the number of faces added. */ async function loadFonts(faces, text = '', { optional = false } = {}) { kitStatus('Loading fonts…'); const ranges = { latin: 'U+0000-00FF,U+0131,U+0152-0153,U+02BB-02BC,U+02C6,U+02DA,U+02DC,U+0304,U+0308,U+0329,' + 'U+2000-206F,U+20AC,U+2122,U+2191,U+2193,U+2212,U+2215,U+FEFF,U+FFFD', 'latin-ext': 'U+0100-02BA,U+02BD-02C5,U+02C7-02CC,U+02CE-02D7,U+02DD-02FF,U+0304,U+0308,U+0329,' + 'U+1D00-1DBF,U+1E00-1E9F,U+1EF2-1EFF,U+2020,U+20A0-20AB,U+20AD-20C0,U+2113,U+2C60-2C7F,U+A720-A7FF', }; const subsets = /[Ā-˿Ḁ-ỿ]/.test(text) ? ['latin', 'latin-ext'] : ['latin']; const jobs = []; let added = 0; for (const [family, specs] of Object.entries(faces)) { const id = fontsourceId(family); const meta = optional ? await fontsourceMeta(family) : null; for (const spec of new Set(specs)) { const weight = parseInt(spec, 10); const style = spec.endsWith('i') ? 'italic' : 'normal'; if (hasFace(family, weight, style)) continue; if (optional && !(meta?.weights.includes(weight) && meta.styles.includes(style))) continue; for (const subset of subsets) { const url = `https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/@fontsource/${id}@5/files/${id}-${subset}-${weight}-${style}.woff2`; const face = new FontFace(family, `url(${url}) format('woff2')`, { weight: String(weight), style, unicodeRange: ranges[subset] }); jobs.push(face.load().then((ready) => { document.fonts.add(ready); added++; }, () => { if (subset === 'latin' && !optional) throw new Error(`Fontsource has no ${family} ${weight} ${style}`); })); } } } await Promise.all(jobs).catch((error) => { kitFail(error); throw error; }); return added; } /** Runs `build` (a buildDocument or buildBundle call) and checks the faces * the pages use. A regular face missing from FONTS is loaded with a warning; * bold and italic variants are loaded when the family ships them. Then the * measurement caches are cleared and the build runs again. */ async function buildWithFonts(build, text = '') { const tried = new Set(); for (let round = 0; round < 3; round++) { kitStatus('Laying out…'); await new Promise(requestAnimationFrame); // let the status paint first const result = await Promise.resolve().then(build).catch((error) => { kitFail(error); throw error; }); const wanted = { base: {}, variants: {} }; for (const { font, base } of [result].flat().flatMap(fontStringsOf)) { const { family, weight, style } = parseFont(font); const key = `${family}|${weight}|${style}`; if (tried.has(key) || hasFace(family, weight, style)) continue; tried.add(key); (wanted[base ? 'base' : 'variants'][family] ??= []).push(`${weight}${style === 'italic' ? 'i' : ''}`); } if (Object.keys(wanted.base).length) { console.warn(`[cookbook] FONTS does not list ${JSON.stringify(wanted.base)}: loading them.`); } const added = await loadFonts(wanted.base, text) + await loadFonts(wanted.variants, text, { optional: true }); if (added === 0) return result; clearMeasurementCache(); } throw new Error('The fonts did not settle after three builds.'); } /** Every font string of the layout. `base` marks a block's own face; its * bold, italic and bold-italic variants are listed whether or not used. */ function fontStringsOf(doc) { const found = new Map(); const walk = (node) => { if (!node || typeof node !== 'object') return; if (Array.isArray(node)) { node.forEach(walk); return; } for (const [key, value] of Object.entries(node)) { if (typeof value === 'string' && /fontString$/i.test(key)) { found.set(value, found.get(value) || key === 'fontString'); } else if (value && typeof value === 'object') walk(value); } }; walk(doc.pages); walk(doc.blocks); return [...found].map(([font, base]) => ({ font, base })); } /** '700 37.5px Open Sans' / 'italic 400 13px "Source Serif 4"' → { family, weight, style }. * A string with no weight ('95.8px Young Serif', from a design text) is 400. */ function parseFont(font) { const m = /^(?:(italic|oblique)\s+)?(?:small-caps\s+)?(?:(\d+|bold|normal)\s+)?[\d.]+px\s+(.+)$/.exec(font.trim()); if (!m) throw new Error(`Unexpected font string: ${font}`); const weight = m[2] === 'bold' ? 700 : !m[2] || m[2] === 'normal' ? 400 : Number(m[2]); return { family: m[3].replace(/^["']|["']$/g, ''), weight, style: m[1] ? 'italic' : 'normal' }; } /** True when a loaded FontFace covers exactly this family, weight and style * (document.fonts.check() is also true for families nobody declared). */ function hasFace(family, weight, style) { for (const face of document.fonts) { if (face.status !== 'loaded' || face.style !== style) continue; if (face.family.replace(/^["']|["']$/g, '') !== family) continue; const [low, high = low] = face.weight.split(' ').map(Number); if (weight >= low && weight <= high) return true; } return false; } /** Fontsource's id for a family: 'Source Serif 4' → 'source-serif-4'. */ function fontsourceId(family) { return family.toLowerCase().replace(/\s+/g, '-'); } /** The weights and styles a family ships ({ weights: [400, 700], styles: ['normal', 'italic'] }), or null. */ function fontsourceMeta(family) { fontsourceMeta.cache ??= new Map(); const id = fontsourceId(family); if (!fontsourceMeta.cache.has(id)) { fontsourceMeta.cache.set(id, fetch(`https://api.fontsource.org/v1/fonts/${id}`) .then((res) => (res.ok ? res.json() : null), () => null)); } return fontsourceMeta.cache.get(id); } // ─── Kit · viewer v1 ── the same in every recipe · postext.dev/cookbook ─────── /** Shows the pages as facing spreads on a dark desk: the first page is a * recto on its own, then verso | recto pairs, as in a bound book. Pages * are painted when they scroll near the screen. */ function showPages(docs, { title, width = 460 } = {}) { const root = viewer(title); const pages = [docs].flat().flatMap((doc) => doc.pages.map((page) => ({ doc, page, n: (doc.pageIndexOffset ?? 0) + page.index }))); const spreads = []; let verso = null; for (const p of pages) { if (p.n % 2 === 1) { if (verso) spreads.push([verso, null]); verso = p; } else { spreads.push([verso, p]); verso = null; } } if (verso) spreads.push([verso, null]); const density = Math.min(window.devicePixelRatio || 1, 2); showPages.painter?.disconnect(); const painter = new IntersectionObserver((entries) => { for (const { isIntersecting, target } of entries) { if (!isIntersecting) continue; painter.unobserve(target); const { doc, page } = target.postext; renderPageToCanvas(page, doc, target, { scale: (width * density) / page.width }); } }, { rootMargin: '800px' }); showPages.painter = painter; root.replaceChildren(...spreads.map((pair) => { const spread = document.createElement('div'); spread.className = 'pt-spread'; for (const p of pair) { const figure = document.createElement('figure'); if (p) { const label = p.page.pageLabel || String(p.n + 1); const canvas = document.createElement('canvas'); canvas.postext = p; canvas.style.aspectRatio = `${p.page.width} / ${p.page.height}`; canvas.setAttribute('role', 'img'); canvas.setAttribute('aria-label', `Page ${label}`); const folio = document.createElement('figcaption'); folio.textContent = label; figure.append(canvas, folio); painter.observe(canvas); } else figure.className = 'pt-blank'; spread.append(figure); } return spread; })); kitStatus(`${pages.length} ${pages.length === 1 ? 'page' : 'pages'}`); document.documentElement.dataset.postext = 'ready'; return pages.length; } /** The desk, the bar and the error reporting, created once. */ function viewer(title) { if (!document.getElementById('pt-kit')) { document.head.insertAdjacentHTML('beforeend', `<style id="pt-kit"> :root { color-scheme: dark; } body { margin: 0; background: #0e1014; color: #b9bcc4; font: 13px/1.45 system-ui, sans-serif; } #pt-bar { position: sticky; top: 0; z-index: 1; display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; align-items: center; gap: 6px 16px; padding: 10px 16px; background: rgb(14 16 20 / .92); backdrop-filter: blur(6px); border-bottom: 1px solid #23262d; } #pt-bar strong { color: #f4f1ea; font-weight: 600; } #pt-actions { display: flex; gap: 12px; margin-left: auto; } #pt-actions a, #pt-actions button { color: #d8a21a; font: inherit; background: none; border: 0; padding: 0; cursor: pointer; } #pages { display: grid; justify-items: center; gap: 48px; padding: 32px 16px 72px; } .pt-spread { display: flex; } .pt-spread figure { margin: 0; width: min(460px, 44vw); } .pt-spread canvas { display: block; width: 100%; background: #fff; box-shadow: 0 1px 2px rgb(0 0 0 / .5), 0 22px 44px -16px rgb(0 0 0 / .8); } .pt-spread figure:first-child canvas { box-shadow: inset -14px 0 14px -14px rgb(0 0 0 / .18), 0 1px 2px rgb(0 0 0 / .5), 0 22px 44px -16px rgb(0 0 0 / .8); } .pt-spread figcaption { margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; font: 600 10px/1 system-ui, sans-serif; letter-spacing: .18em; text-transform: uppercase; color: #6c7079; } .pt-blank { visibility: hidden; } @media (max-width: 760px) { .pt-spread { flex-direction: column; gap: 32px; } .pt-spread figure { width: min(460px, 92vw); } .pt-blank { display: none; } } </style>`); document.body.insertAdjacentHTML('afterbegin', '<header id="pt-bar"><strong id="pt-title"></strong><span id="pt-status" role="status"></span><span id="pt-actions"></span></header>'); document.getElementById('pt-title').textContent = document.title || 'Postext'; addEventListener('error', (event) => kitFail(event.error ?? event.message)); addEventListener('unhandledrejection', (event) => kitFail(event.reason)); } if (title) document.getElementById('pt-title').textContent = title; return document.getElementById('pages') ?? document.body.appendChild(Object.assign(document.createElement('main'), { id: 'pages' })); } function kitStatus(text) { viewer(); document.getElementById('pt-status').textContent = text; } function kitFail(error) { document.documentElement.dataset.postext = 'error'; kitStatus(`Error: ${error?.message ?? error}`); } // ─── Kit · pdf v1 ── the same in every recipe that exports a PDF ────────────── /** postext-pdf embeds TrueType bytes. Fetch the Fontsource file the screen * used, snapping to a weight the family ships and falling back to upright * when it has no italic: the PDF asks for every face a block could use. */ async function fontsourceProvider(family, weight, style) { const id = fontsourceId(family); const meta = await fontsourceMeta(family); const weights = meta?.weights?.length ? meta.weights : [400, 700]; const w = weights.reduce((a, b) => (Math.abs(b - weight) < Math.abs(a - weight) ? b : a)); const s = style === 'italic' && meta && !meta.styles.includes('italic') ? 'normal' : style; const res = await fetch(`https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/@fontsource/${id}@5/files/${id}-latin-${w}-${s}.woff2`); if (!res.ok) throw new Error(`Fontsource has no ${family} ${w} ${s} (${res.status})`); return decompressWoff2(new Uint8Array(await res.arrayBuffer())); } /** A "Build the PDF" button in the bar. Once built: "Open the PDF" (a new * tab, since CodePen's preview frame cannot show PDFs) and a download link. */ function offerPdf(makePdf, filename) { viewer(); const button = Object.assign(document.createElement('button'), { type: 'button', textContent: 'Build the PDF' }); button.dataset.postextPdf = filename; button.addEventListener('click', async () => { button.disabled = true; button.textContent = 'Building the PDF…'; try { const bytes = await makePdf(); const url = URL.createObjectURL(new Blob([bytes], { type: 'application/pdf' })); const size = `${Math.max(1, Math.round(bytes.length / 1024))} KB`; button.replaceWith( Object.assign(document.createElement('a'), { href: url, target: '_blank', rel: 'noopener', textContent: 'Open the PDF ↗' }), Object.assign(document.createElement('a'), { href: url, download: filename, textContent: `Download ${filename} · ${size}` })); } catch (error) { button.disabled = false; button.textContent = 'Build the PDF'; kitFail(error); } }); document.getElementById('pt-actions').append(button); } // ─── Kit · images v1 ── recipes with pictures · postext.dev/cookbook ────────── /** Registers a photo or PNG for the canvas and keeps its bytes for the PDF. * fetch → ImageBitmap never taints the canvas (a plain cross-origin <img> would). */ async function loadImage(fileId, url) { const res = await fetch(url); if (!res.ok) throw new Error(`Image not found (${res.status}): ${url}`); const bytes = new Uint8Array(await res.arrayBuffer()); registerResourceImage(fileId, await createImageBitmap(new Blob([bytes]))); (loadImage.bytes ??= new Map()).set(fileId, bytes); } /** Registers SVG markup (drawn in code, or fetched) as a vector image. */ async function loadSvg(fileId, svg) { const img = new Image(); img.src = `data:image/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,${encodeURIComponent(svg)}`; await img.decode(); registerResourceImage(fileId, img); (loadImage.bytes ??= new Map()).set(fileId, new TextEncoder().encode(svg)); } /** renderToPdf({ resourceBytes: imageBytes }) */ function imageBytes(fileId) { return loadImage.bytes?.get(fileId); } /** renderToHtml({ resourceImageUrl: imageUrl }) */ function imageUrl(fileId) { const bytes = imageBytes(fileId); if (!bytes) return undefined; imageUrl.urls ??= new Map(); if (!imageUrl.urls.has(fileId)) { const type = /\.svg$/i.test(fileId) ? 'image/svg+xml' : /\.png$/i.test(fileId) ? 'image/png' : 'image/jpeg'; imageUrl.urls.set(fileId, URL.createObjectURL(new Blob([bytes], { type }))); } return imageUrl.urls.get(fileId); } // ─── /Kit ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
The composed script.js runs as it is: paste it into any page’s module script, or open the recipe on CodePen. Recipe folder on GitHub ↗
Variations
#Ask for 5 mm of bleed
The artwork, the tab and the scale bar are sized from BLEED, and the crop marks follow it through markOffset, so a press that wants 5 mm needs only this change, and each sheet grows to 200 × 257 mm.
-const BLEED = 3; // mm of artwork past the trim: the cover, the tab and the back band reach it
+const BLEED = 5; // mm of artwork past the trim: the cover, the tab and the back band reach it#Print the artwork from its SVGs
Without pdfFileId the press file draws each picture from its SVG, still as vectors but through the plain conversion, and the sea prints C82 M0 Y25 K76, a petrol teal.
- updatedAt: 0, ...extra, svg: { fileId: `${id}.svg`, pdfFileId: `${id}.pdf`,
+ updatedAt: 0, ...extra, svg: { fileId: `${id}.svg`,Pitfalls
Pitfall
renderToPdf ignores svg.pdfFileId: serve the master through resourceBytes
Outside bundles, renderToPdf asks resourceBytes for the SVG's own fileId and never for svg.pdfFileId. Return the print master's bytes for the SVG's fileId in your resourceBytes. SVG print masters →
Pitfall
The PDF asks for every weight and style of every family
renderToPdf asks the font provider for the bold, italic and bold-italic faces of every family a block could use, even ones never printed, and a single rejection stops the export. The provider must snap to the nearest weight the family ships and fall back to upright when there is no italic. Fonts embedded in the PDF →
Pitfall
No <marker> or filters in SVG art (raster fallback)
An SVG figure stays vector in the PDF only without <marker>, filters and masks; otherwise it falls back to a raster, and deeply nested filters can blank it in Chrome. Draw arrowheads as paths. Figures and tables as resources →
Pitfall
Text inside an SVG <img> cannot use web fonts
An SVG is drawn as an image, and an image has no access to the page's web fonts, so its labels fall back to a system face. Outline the text, embed an @font-face subset in the SVG, or move the labels to the caption. Figures and tables as resources →
Pitfall
Fontsource latin files drop glyphs outside Latin
The PDF provider embeds Fontsource's latin files, which cover Spanish and Western European text but not →, ≈, ✓, ★, Greek or Central European letters; those glyphs go missing in the PDF. Keep PDF text inside the latin range. Fonts embedded in the PDF →
Pitfall
An opener's images never count towards the height it reserves
In postext 1.4.1 an advanced-design heading measures the height it reserves without its images: its texts, rules and boxes count, even when anchored to the page, but an image, such as a picture bled across the head of the page, reserves nothing, so the text can start on top of it. Set minHeight to where the text should begin. Designed openers →
Pitfall
Ragged text is never hyphenated
Hyphenation applies to justified text only; ragged-right text breaks between words, so a narrow ragged column gets a deep rag. Justify the passage or widen the measure. Hyphenation and document language →
Pitfall
Localise Figure/Table with defaultResourceTypes(locale)
The config's locale sets hyphenation, not captions: without resourceTypes the built-in types say Figure and Table in English. Pass resourceTypes: defaultResourceTypes('es') for Spanish; for any other language, write the names yourself in resourceTypes. Figure and Table in your language →
Pitfall
Any headings object switches off the H1 page break
By default an H1 breaks to a recto (always-odd), but passing any headings object resets that default, so chapters run on and span: 'page' does nothing. Restate headings.levels[0].breakBefore: { enabled: true, parity } in every config. Chapters that open on a recto →
Pitfall
A swapped palette misses design elements and the reference colour
postext 1.4.1 reads colorPalette into the text styles (body, headings, lists, captions, tables, boxes) but not into the elements of headers, footers, openers and part pages, nor into bodyText.referenceColor: they keep the hex written beside their paletteId. When you swap the palette, for a dark screen edition or a retint, rewrite every linked colour from colorPalette before the build. Semantic colour palette →
Pitfall
Design text overflow defaults to 'ellipsis-end'
A design text element that does not fit its width ends in an ellipsis by default. Set overflow: 'wrap' for titles that should break onto more lines. Text, rules and boxes in page designs →
Pitfall
A config is cached by identity: build a fresh object
The engine caches resolved configs by object identity, so changing a config in place and building again reuses the old result. Build a fresh object for every build, which is why a recipe's config is a factory: config(). Pages on a canvas →
Pitfall
Load every face before layout
Layout measures text with the faces the browser has loaded and caches the widths, so a face that arrives after the first build leaves wrong line breaks and a PDF that no longer matches the screen. Load every weight and style first, and call clearMeasurementCache() before rebuilding when one arrives late. Fonts before layout →
- postext-pdf 1.4.1 writes each page as a single MediaBox, the whole 192 × 249 mm sheet, with no TrimBox or BleedBox, and prints the crop marks on the black plate only. Give the print shop the trim size, 170 × 227 mm, or add the boxes in a prepress tool if the shop asks for PDF/X.
- In 1.4.1 a crop mark starts
markOffsetoutside the trim, not outside the bleed, so with a bleed wider than the default 3 mm offset the marks print over the artwork. Keep the offset equal to the bleed, ascutLinesdoes here. renderToPdf1.4.1 does not readconfig.pdfGeneration.pressPdf()passes the colour space as an option, and bookmarks and tagging are on by default.- Once built, each button turns into an "Open the PDF ↗" link and a download link, and only the download links carry the file names.
Credits
- Recipe
- Ignacio Ferro
- Text
- Original prose, CC BY 4.0
- Fonts
- Karla (SIL OFL 1.1) · Space Grotesk (SIL OFL 1.1) · Space Mono (SIL OFL 1.1)


