Ask HN: How does Google Docs do print layouts?
I am trying to figure out if there is an HTML WYSIWYG editor available that displays documents in a print view mode the way Google Docs. If not, how does Google accomplish it?
Google just wrote their own layout engine. Open your browser's dev tools and watch what it's doing to the DOM as you edit text- it essentially positions each glyph as it sees fit.
I'm not aware of any easily available package that can do the same. I wish there was, I've actually started to write something but quickly got intimidated at the enormity of the task.
Even draftjs or quill which have a very cool input/editing story still use the browser's layout engine to render the text so you'll never have the level of control gdocs does.