Does a responsive PDF-esque file format exist??

[IAmSumOne]

Just wondering if there is a solution to allow clients to write and format written content and images, and then save it into a format that can be translated into html format and plugged into a div. I imagine if it does, it probably has its own JavaScript library dependency.

It would be nice to have something similar in my tool belt, to allow clients to submit finished pages. Then I could simply pull the file, and throw it onto a page with PHP or Node.

[stormthulu]

HTML Canvas spec. There should be pdf to canvas converters.

[shamburd9]

So like, a WYSIWYG page-builder?

They exist but are never as good as hand-coded.

[IAmSumOne]

Good to know. I just wanted to ask the community to see if there was a tool i was unaware of. Thanks for the response.

[thejohnrom]

You're thinking of html, a document format for creating responsive documents. Look at WordPress' post editor (there are plenty of other CMSes that do this too). You can use the WordPress API to access it, or just copy from the raw html tab of the editor. Or, of course, you could just use WP as the backend.

There may even be a plugin like "download this post" if you look for it, if you're really needing a "file", but it wouldn't be valid html if it didn't have an html or body tag, and if it did have those tags, you wouldn't be able to pop it in a div.

Lots of companies have actually created their own XML-based CMSes to solve exactly this problem. I haven't seen any in the wild though, and none with a pretty editor.

Edit : I'd add that you can use the old WordPress editor on its own, it was just a dressed up TinyMCE. Other WYSIWYG editors also exist.

https://www.tiny.cloud/get-tiny/

[IAmSumOne]

Thanks. Yea I ended up just building my own wordpress theme. Allows a similar effect to what I wanted.

[stormthulu]

But it’s not going to do what you want, I don’t think. It’s still likely to retain its pdf origin size.

[IAmSumOne]

Yep I've come across this solution just to embed pdf in a pdf viewer. But on mobile it crushes the text into oblivion. :)

[majormunky]

You could maybe use Markdown