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by javiereguiluz 5252 days ago
First, thank you all for your comments and suggestions.

1. You are right about the license. It’s (unintentionally) misleading. I’ll change it soon to pure MIT license.

2. @okal, @Turing_Machine: yes, ePub will be supported and more formats will follow.

3. @gnufs: it uses PrinceXML for PDF publishing because it’s, by far, the best library I’ve found for HTML to PDF conversion. Do you know any other free/open-source library with the same or superior features?

4. @mrleinad: yes, I’d love to use a shorter and cleaner URL; but it’s really tough to find a good and unregistered domain with the word “book”.

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re (3): I have used the headless webkit engine to render high quality PDFs from HTML in the past. It's free. See: https://code.google.com/p/wkhtmltopdf/
Thanks for your reference. I'll try it, but after reading its documentation I'm afraid it doesn't have support for the much needed and non-standard CSS properties invented by PrinceXML (http://princexml.com/doc/8.0/properties/)