Blog posts

  1. Event report of “Vivliostyle User/Dev Meetup Spring 2023”

    (The original article is 「Vivliostyle ユーザーと開発者の集い 2023春」開催報告 in Japanese) Link to the day’s program and video Part 1: Reports from Users 13:00-13:10 (10 min.) : Explanation of the...

  2. A book explaining Vivliostyle is released!

    (The original article is Vivliostyleの解説本が発売!in Japanese) A book that describes what you can do with CSS typesetting The first book which explained Vivliostyle, “Making books with web technologi...

  3. Introduction of the new Vivliostyle Themes

    We’re delighted to announce that the new Vivliostyle Themes are now available in Beta version! It’s more than just a CSS file for Vivliostyle. It’s an ambitious library that is a new form of CSS ...

  4. Event report of “Vivliostyle User/Dev Meetup Autumn 2022”

    (The original article is 「Vivliostyle ユーザーと開発者の集い 2022秋」開催報告 in Japanese) “Vivliostyle User/Dev Meetup Autumn 2022” was held The annual fall user event was held online on November 20. Vivli...

    Vivliostyle Pub now exports PDF files

    Vivliostyle Pub released an alpha version in April. Since then, development has proceeded smoothly, and just recently it has become possible to export to PDF files. The user guide has been substa...

  5. New FY2021 Activity Report Released

    FY2021 Activity Report (April 1, 2021 - March 31, 2022) is now available as follows. FY2021 Activity Report As in previous years, you will be able to view it in A4 and variable sizes via th...

  6. Spring 2022 meetup and release of Vivliostyle Pub alpha version

    (The original article is 2022年春ユーザーイベント開催とVivliostyle Pubアルファ版の公開 in Japanese) Holding Spring 2022 meetup Sorry for the delay in reporting, but our annual meetup was held online on April 23. ...

  7. Line end handling has been evolved to allow multiple typesetting options

    Fig 1 Old version v.2.13.0 (left) and new version v.2.14.0 (right) of Vivliostyle Viewer. Introduction Vivliostyle.js was updated to v2.14.0 on February 4, 2022. Please refer to the following for...

  8. JavaScript can now be used in typesetting by Vivliostyle

    DynaFont's "DFJadeFangSong JP13N W4" in Vivliostyle Pub, currently under development. Introduction Vivliostyle.js was updated to v2.13.0 on January 17, 2022, and Vivliostyle CLI was updated to v4...

  9. Event report of “Vivliostyle User/Dev Meetup Autumn 2021”

    (The original article is 「Vivliostyle ユーザーと開発者の集い 2021秋」開催報告 in Japanese) The semi-annual “Vivliostyle User/Dev Meetup Autumn 2021” was held online on November 14. The slides and a summary of co...

  10. Recent Vivliostyle.js updates

    Over the past month, Vivliostyle.js has been undergoing a series of important updates. It was v2.8.1 until early September, and now it is v2.11.1. An overview can be found in the Change Log. This...

  11. New FY2020 Report Released

    The FY2020 Activity Report has been released as follows. FY2020 Activity Report So many things happened last fiscal year. There was the sudden pandemic, in which the contributors proposed t...

  12. Presentation about Vivliostyle at JEPA seminar

    On June 15, 2021, at the invitation of the Japan Electronic Publishing Association (JEPA), Shinyu Murakami and I gave a presentation on Vivliostyle. The following is the record (Japanese only). ...

  13. Event report of “Vivliostyle User/Dev meetup Spring 2021”

    (The original article is 「Vivliostyle ユーザーと開発者の集い 2021春」開催報告 in Japanese) On April 10th, we successfully held the 4th “Vivliostyle User/Dev meetup”. The slides and videos from the event, as well...

  14. Updates on Vivliostyle—Improved CLI and CSS Paged Media support

    Vivliostyle’s recent significant updates include improved preview functionality in the Vivliostyle CLI and enhanced support for the CSS Paged Media specifications. Vivliostyle CLI’s preview improv...

  15. Vivliostyle CLI has been majorly upgraded to v3

    In our first entry of the year, “New Year’s Greetings and Updates on Vivliostyle”, we wrote that Vivliostyle CLI v3 was being prepared, and we are happy to announce that v3.0.0 was officially rel...

  16. New Year's Greetings and Updates on Vivliostyle

    Introduction Happy New Year to you all! Vivliostyle would like to thank all the contributors who have collaborated with us on our projects over the last year and all the users of our products. ...

  17. Update on the development of Vivliostyle at Online.tex 2020

    Introduction I’m sorry for the delay in reporting, but on November 21, I reported on the development of Vivliostyle Pub at the Online.tex 2020 conference. This was the first time we actually demon...

  18. You can support Vivliostyle without a GitHub account

    In April of this year, we began soliciting support from GitHub sponsors. Fortunately, at the time of writing, 13 people have supported us from here. We are deeply grateful to our sponsors. Howev...

  19. Event report of "Vivliostyle User/Dev meetup autumn 2020"

    (The original article is 「Vivliostyle ユーザーと開発者の集い 2020秋」開催報告 in Japanese) Recently, on October 24, we held an online event, “Vivliostyle User and Developer Meetup - Fall 2020.” We live streamed ...

    FY2019 Activity Report is now available

    Vivliostyle Foundation’s fiscal year is April 1 to March 31. We are pleased to announce that we have prepared the activity report for the second fiscal year, April 1, 2019, to March 31, 2020, as ...

  20. Become a sponsor to Vivliostyle via Github Sponsors

    We got approved for the GitHub Sponsors program that we had applied for, and the call for sponsors page is now open: Become a sponsor to Vivliostyle From this page, you can support a certai...

  21. Event report of "Vivliostyle User/Dev meetup Spring 2020"

    (The original article is 「Vivliostyle ユーザーと開発者の集い 2020春」開催報告 in Japanese) Sorry for the late report, but we successfully held the “Vivliostyle User/Dev meetup Spring 2020”. In our previous post o...

    TIB published the first textbook against COVID-19 using Vivliostyle

    In recent weeks, the new coronavirus (COVID-19) has been rampant around the world. Healthcare professionals have been faced with tough fights in Germany in recent weeks. To overcome this battle,...

  22. We will hold "Vivliostyle User / Dev Meetup 2020 Spring"

    (The original article is “CSS組版 Vivliostyle ユーザーと開発者の集い 2020春 を開催します” in Japanes) What can we do during the pandemic of the new Coronavirus (COVID-19)? After a lot of thought, we decided to speed ...

  23. Vivliostyle Developer and User Meeting 2019 Summer was held!

    (The original article is “Vivliostyle 開発者とユーザーの集い 2019 夏 開催しました!” in Japanese) Saturday, August 31, 2019, Vivliostyle Developer and User Meeting 2019 Summer (in Tokyo) hosted by Vivliostyle User G...

  24. Vivliostyle version 2019.8.101 released!

    We have released Vivliostyle version 2019.8.101. (See the latest Vivliostyle Viewer, and User’s Guide) This is a bug fix version of Vivliostyle version 2019.8.100 released! Now written in TypeScr...

  25. Vivliostyle version 2019.8.100 released! Now written in TypeScript

    We have released Vivliostyle version 2019.8.100. (See the latest Vivliostyle Viewer, and User’s Guide) Vivliostyle.js source code is now written in TypeScript Vivliostyle.js started out as a for...

  26. Vivliostyle version 2019.1.106 released!

    We have released Vivliostyle version 2019.1.106. (See the latest Vivliostyle Viewer, and User’s Guide) This is a bug fix version of 2019.1.101 release: Fix Firefox printing problem Fix erro...

  27. Vivliostyle version 2019.1.105 released!

    We have released Vivliostyle version 2019.1.105. (See the latest Vivliostyle Viewer, and User’s Guide) This is a bug fix version of 2019.1.101 release: Fix bug that duplicate page margin box ...

  28. Vivliostyle version 2019.1.103 released!

    We have released Vivliostyle version 2019.1.103. (See the latest Vivliostyle Viewer, and User’s Guide) This is a bug fix version of 2019.1.101 release: Fix problem that page background color ...

  29. Vivliostyle version 2019.1.102 released!

    We have released Vivliostyle version 2019.1.102. (See the latest Vivliostyle Viewer, and User’s Guide) This is a bug fix version of 2019.1.101 release: Fixed the bug that cannot open EPUB whe...

  30. Vivliostyle version 2019.1.101 released!

    We have released Vivliostyle version 2019.1.101. (See the latest Vivliostyle Viewer, and User’s Guide) This release includes the following improvements: TOC (Table of Contents) navigation is now...

  31. Vivliostyle version 2018.12.103 released!

    We have released Vivliostyle version 2018.12.103. This release includes following changes: Fix bug that ruby (or inline-block/table etc.) causes incorrect pagination Fix bug on URL fragment ...

  32. Introduction of Viola — Online editor for printing and publishing

    Hello! I’m spring-raining, a Vivliostyle project collaborator. In this entry, I’ll introduce Viola, which is an online editor using Vivliostyle. Development history In 2016, I was looking for a...

  33. On Vivliostyle and webbased publishing — Interview by Fidus Writer

    An interview ariticle Shinyu Murakami on Vivliostyle and the state of webbased publishing was released on the website of Fidus Writer, an online collaborative editor especially for academics, now...

  34. Vivliostyle version 2018.10.100 released!

    We have released Vivliostyle version 2018.10.100. This release includes following changes: Add “Go to Page” (Page number / Total pages) menu item Navigation UI adjustment Disable page swip...

  35. On Vivliostyle-print

    An interview with myself about the new package Vivliostyle-print Vivliostyle.js has been with us for a few years already. It can both show paged media in the browser as well as print HTML with ext...

  36. Vivliostyle version 2018.8.100 released!

    We have released Vivliostyle version 2018.8.100. This is the first release after the open source Vivliostyle’s organization change. This release includes following changes: Page navigation UI ...

    A New Beginning for Vivliostyle

    Vivliostyle was founded as a startup company on a vision for bridging the gap between the web and the world of printing. To this end, the company worked on an open source project, among other thing...