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It's surprisingly difficult to navigate to a clear example of this project in action.

Found a sample, here are the first 50 pages of Moby Dick: https://s3.amazonaws.com/pagedmedia/pagedjs/examples/index.h...

That link is hilariously broken on my phone (Safari iOS 12)

I see the tiny zoomed out 2x2 layout of the page, but if I try to zoom in, it zooms in on the abyss.

And if I try to pan while zoomed in, it zooms back out to the illegible zoomed out view...

Actually the more I play with it, the more interesting the way it breaks are.

I was able to zoom in when I scrolled down first, and very inefficiently pan around the 2 column view, but if I pan too far, the zoom resets.

And sometimes I just end up being taken to the abyss again.

Which I figured out is way off in the right margin.

It's apparently made for printing online content, not reading in the browser / on your phone.

We have media queries, there’s no need to break one to make the other look good

Maybe I don't understand the project, but the top of the docs shows that it all goes inside the @media print{...} media query.

Sure, just make another @media screen {…}

Which didn't work in Safari on my mac. Looked like it did in FF, but only got the first 16 pages for some reason.

Broken on iOS 13 as well.

It's weird that "and" is broken up into "an-" and "d" on page 38 and 39 respectively.

I open this link. The fan of my T480 starts blowing audibly and is getting louder. I can feel a delay when marking some text. All it does is render some text. Thankfully, scrolling stays smooth. I close the page. My fan calms down.

I think I will stay away from this for now.

Here is a repo with an exemple : https://gitlab.pagedmedia.org/samples/printing-in-relation-t...

In action with glitch: https://printing-in-relation-to-graphic-art.glitch.me/

We are still working on a site for this so sadly not much to point to yet, but might be worth checking out the sneak peaks post with a few codepens running paged.js at https://www.pagedmedia.org/pagedjs-sneak-peeks/

I spent a few minutes looking for a demo and gave up. Did you find one?

Same here. There is an /examples folder in the top repo from the linked gitlab instance, but it just contains a lot of inline js and I’m on mobile so can’t try to run it.

You can have a look at https://paged.design/ for some example.

Use chromium and try to print to see the whole thing in action.

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