Can we render OJS or Julia output in PDFs?

[dmisdm]

Hey there!
Sorry if this is a redundant question, I just haven't yet worked out the answer after scrounging around!

Is rendering OJS output/viewofs (or even Julia) in PDFs supported? As far as I can tell, It's only doable when targeting HTML, since all I get when rendering to PDF is the code, without any ability for code folding either.

If I'm correct, and this feature isn't supported, I'd be delighted to try and implement this.
Could someone point me to the best starting place or provide links to relevant resources/source code?

Much obliged for any help 😇

This project is sick.

[rgaiacs]

Observable (OJS) cells are processed by the browser. The best way to export it to PDF is to print from your browser.

What content from Julia are you trying to export?

[dmisdm]

Appreciate the response!
Julia was just an example, since i noticed that cells weren't computing then rendering within PDFs. Personally, I'm more interested in getting OJS at the moment.
Since I'm looking for that "academic PDF" style, I don't think printing from a browser is viable unfortunately.

Do you by any chance know which part of the architecture handles executing code and rendering it?

Also, If i'm understanding correctly, it's not possible, and i should close this question?

[rgaiacs]

Julia was just an example

I don't have Julia installed in my machine to provide you with a example. I believe that Quarto will try to render your document using Jupyter because it has a Julia cell and you are required to have a Julia kernel.

Personally, I'm more interested in getting OJS at the moment.
Since I'm looking for that "academic PDF" style, I don't think printing from a browser is viable unfortunately.

Can you share the reason that you want OJS? Would R work for you?

One of the advantages of OJS is it's graph resolution of cell order. The way that I had work around this with R is big portion of my data processing is in a separate R script that export the important variables to a .rda file which is loaded by default.

Do you by any chance know which part of the architecture handles executing code and rendering it?

For OJS, it is a Javascript library. Quartos creates the HTML with the OJS cells and leave for the browser to render it. It is for math with TeX.

[cscheid]

Thanks for the kind words! You're correct that this feature is currently not supported, and we appreciate the offer and enthusiasm.

Unfortunately, adding support for HTML screen captures in PDF format is significantly trickier than it looks at first. There are a variety of reasons for this, but they all come down to the order in which operations currently happen in quarto. and by the time the PDF renderer figures out it needs to screenshot an HTML element, it's too late to schedule the rendering of the HTML format.

With that said, this is an important feature and it's 100% on our radar (we just had a design meeting about it yesterday in fact). The current expectation is that this should land anywhere from 3-9 months out.

[cscheid]

Here's a longer personal answer: https://bsky.app/profile/cscheid.net/post/3ls25wg6mnk2y

[frscott]

Thanks for letting me see your perspective. I am sorry I hit a sore spot with my response. When you say upvote a request does that just mean upvote this question? As you can tell I have very little experience with open source projects. In the future I will not ask about updates.

[mcanouil]

@frscott On discussion, it's the arrow you can see at the bottom of the "main" post(s):

At the discussion board level, you can find the same arrow (matching the one from the first original post of the thread).

On issues, use reactions such as thumb up to let the maintainers know you are interested without triggering notifications to ALL participants but still allowing maintainers to sort/filter the issue based on the number of reactions (they can't sort/filter with comments).

[frscott]

Thanks! I upvoted the post. I don't see this request as an issue yet is that correct?

[mcanouil]

as said, it's the reaction button.

[jjallaire]

We do accept PRs w/ a contributor agreement: https://quarto.org/about.html#contribute

[beyond2060]

I would love to be able to include Observable Plot graphs in PDFs.

⭐️ Quarto totaly rocks! ⭐️