Welcome to Vivliostyle Documentation

What is Vivliostyle?

Vivliostyle is an open-source project that provides:

• Vivliostyle Viewer - View and paginate HTML/CSS documents in the browser
• Vivliostyle CLI - Command-line tool for generating PDF / EPUB from HTML/Markdown
• VFM (Vivliostyle Flavored Markdown) - Extended Markdown syntax for publishing
• Vivliostyle Themes - Pre-designed themes for beautiful documents

For Vivliostyle Beginners

• Tutorials ↗
• FAQ ↗
• Reference
• Samples ↗

Cookbook

Practical, cross-product guides to recently added Vivliostyle features:

• Footnotes — DPUB-ARIA footnotes, the standard @page { @footnote { } } rule, and the new VFM footnote modes (v2.41)
• CMYK Conversion — device-cmyk() and CLI PDF CMYK output (v2.40)
• Page Groups — Named pages and the :nth(An+B of C) page selector (v2.39)
• CSS Nesting Guide — CSS Nesting in Vivliostyle.js v2.42, including typesetting pseudo-elements

Single Source, Multi Output

One of the key benefits of Vivliostyle is SSMO (Single Source Multi Output):

From a single Markdown source, you can generate:

• WebPub - HTML pages for online viewing
• PDF - Print-ready documents
• EPUB - E-book format

VFM Features Demo

This demonstrates VFM's {Ruby|ルビ} support.

The term "hypertext" was coined by Ted Nelson in 1963, long before the invention of the World Wide Web[^1].

[^1]: Nelson, T. H. (1965). "Complex information processing: a file structure for the complex, the changing and the indeterminate".

Downloads (built by Vivliostyle CLI)

Web Pub, PDF and EPUB were generated from the documents (Markdown source) on this site using Vivliostyle CLI (Single Source, Multi Output).