Hi,

I would like to make a PDF from a web page and print the URL in the footer. Is there a variable that stores the URL ?

Yes, you can use "content: prince-base-url()".

Thank you for your answer.

I’ve tested it and I have a problem with long URL. Can you tell me how to wrap them?



Here is an example :

@charset "utf-8";

/*

Save this css in prince_web.css.

Then run :
prince "http://home.web.cern.ch/about/updates/2013/10/cern-releases-photos-under-creative-commons-licence" -s prince_web.css -o prince_web.pdf

You can do it twice and change the "content" below (once with url as string and once with url taken from prince-base-url)

*/

@page
{
	size: A5;
	margin: 2cm 2cm 3cm;
	@bottom-center
	{

		/* This works. The URL will wrap to the next line. */
		/*content: "http://home.web.cern.ch/about/updates/2013/10/cern-releases-photos-under-creative-commons-licence" "\A\A" counter( page );*/

		/* This doesn’t work. The URL will NOT wrap to the next line. */
		content: prince-base-url() "\A\A" counter( page ) " / " counter( pages );


		border-top: 1px solid;
		word-wrap: break-word;
		white-space: pre-line;
		vertical-align: center;
		padding: 0.5em 0 1em;
		margin: 0;
	}
}

It appears that Prince does not apply the prince-linebreak-magic and prince-text-replace properties to the prince-base-url() generated content function. This makes it difficult to wrap long URLs. But it is a minor oversight, and should be easy for us to fix in the next maintenance release of Prince 9. Thanks for letting us know about this issue!

We have fixed this minor oversight in Prince 9 rev 4, and now the prince-linebreak-magic and text-replace properties do apply to generated content functions. Thanks again for letting us know!

Prince 10 is now available, and supports the word-wrap property, which can be a more convenient way to ensure that long text breaks instead of overflowing.