New hands-on training "Generating high-quality PDF documents from XML and HTML using CSS Paged Media"

Introduction

"CSS Paged Media" turned into a serious solution for generating high-quality PDF documents from XML or HTML over the last years. The advantages of the CSS Paged Media approach obvious:

• basic knowledge in XML/HTML and CSS sufficient (you do not need to be an XML expert)
• separation between content and layout/styling
• easy to learn, easy to use
• lower costs
• higher flexibility

Usecases

• text-oriented publications (books, newspapers, documentation etc.).
• layout-oriented publictions (flyers, brochures, web-to-print applications)

Contents

• Introduction CSS Paged Media
• The region model of CSS Paged Media
• Basic formatting
• Multi-column layouts
• Mehrspaltiger Satz
• Pagination
• Images
• Footnotes
• Header and footer
• Automatic table of content generation

Requirements

• basic knowledge in XML/HTML and cascading stylesheets
• basic knowledge in typography

Software

• PDFreactor 7.0 (alternative: PrinceXML 9)

Price and Location

Our hands-on trainings usually usually takes place at your company or organization. We teach in small groups of up to three people. We offer an individual training based on your requirements, needs and the skills of your employees. The price depends on the number of training days and the location of the training. Contact us directly for further information and quotes.

Trainer

Andreas Jung has been working for more than 20 years in the field of Electronic Publishing and developed several PDF generation solutions over the last ten years. Andreas Jung is chief developer and author of the  Produce & Publish product family and found of the  XML Director project.