Content to the left or right of the document text on each page

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Content to the left or right of the document text on each page

mb21 opened this issue 8 years ago · comments

Is there a way to display something on the left or right of the document text on each page?

Ideally, iA Writer Templates would support the Paged Media CSS module, where I could use the @left and @right selectors. Paged Media is implemented in PrinceXML and WeasyPrint among others...

Anton Sotkov · Answer 1 · Sun Jun 26 2016 01:39:56 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Currently, there’s no way to do this in iA Writer. While we cannot promise to implement the full Paged Media CSS module (this a job for WebKit), we will definitely consider adding ability to position content to the left or right of the document page for a future update.

Mauro Bieg · Answer 2 · Sun Jun 26 2016 01:57:02 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Thanks for the prompt reply!

oh well, that bug report is from 2007 and still not fixed, so I'm not holding my breath.

I guess you're stuck with webkit because you are using the iOS/macOS built-in webview? This seems to make a lot of sense for the preview, but not so much for the PDF/print generation... In fact, I'm wondering how you got webkit to do the headers and footers, since position: fixed doesn't work for that any more, if I'm not mistaken...?

Anton Sotkov · Answer 3 · Wed Jun 29 2016 00:35:48 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

You’re welcome. We prefer a pragmatic approach.