Yihui Xie | pagedown Creating beautiful PDFs with R Markdown and CSS | RStudio (2019)

The traditional way to beautiful PDFs is often through LaTeX or Word, but have you ever thought of printing a web page to PDF? Web technologies (HTML/CSS/JavaScript) are becoming more and more amazing. It is entirely possible to create high-quality PDFs through Google Chrome or Chromium now. Web pages are usually single-page documents, but they can be paginated thanks to the JavaScript library Paged.js, so that you can have elements like headers, footers, and page margins for the printing purpose. In this talk, we introduce a new R package, pagedown (github.com/rstudio/pagedown), to create PDF documents based on R Markdown and Paged.js. Applications of pagedown includes, but not limited to, books, articles, posters, resumes, letters, and business cards. With the power of CSS and JavaScript, you can typeset your documents with amazing elegance (e.g., a single line of CSS, "tr:nth-child(even) { background: #eee; }", will give you a striped table, and "border-radius: 50%;" gives you a circular element) and power (e.g., HTML Widgets).
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[@ramadatta7046]

That was cool how he even started his talk!🤣

[@amai_zing]

Yihui as made me laugh and saved me a ton of work! Be my friend, Yihui!

[@LordRamachandran]

awesome talk! Very inspiring. Love your style of presentation!

[@jurusanilmuekonomiunhas3064]

thankyou Yi Hui, great job.

[@gyeong-geunlee8904]

Thanks for your effort! I am looking forward to the official release 1.0.

[@yundu3967]

nice job. Thanks, Yihui.

[@jacky_23]

You are awesome 👏 thanks a lot for your contributions to this world 🗺

[@okamasnr4891]

I just got on this and i tell you,pagedown will work good in my typesetting world

[@akashdeeph.2865]

Xie Xie Thank u THank u

[@Dreaming-11]

Brilliant

[@imnotyourfather2866]

this guy is very cool

[@akashdeeph.2865]

you just rocked my world

[@hunibuni]

This is WONDERFUL, but there is so much white space between the elements of the resume, making it hard to fit necessary content into one page. How can we use RStudio or some other method to edit the spacing ? Also the version I downloaded with CRAN (pagedown) has bookmark icons in the main section of the resume which don't change editing the tags in rmarkdown. Update: I used an override stylesheet.

[@amai_zing]

Does anyone know how to import a public style sheet (eg on a webpage) such that I can use the variables (either $ and/or - (dash dash) prefixed) specified there in my document?

[@khalidbaabad8119]

Html to pdf does not work with me. Is there a video explaining how it works.!?