Tool
Quire
Getty’s static-site scholarly publishing toolkit with PDF via Paged.js/Prince
About
This site was created using Quire™, a multiformat publishing tool owned by the J. Paul Getty Trust.
Quire is an open-source multiformat publishing tool designed for longevity, discoverability, and scholarship. Using a single set of plain text files, Quire creates books as authoritative and enduring as print and as vibrant and feature-rich as the web—all without paying a fee or maintaining a complicated server.
Quire is an ideal solution for anyone seeking to publish beautiful digital books optimized for visual imagery and designed to ensure widely accessible and stable content.
Quire allows for greater preservation and digital distribution of works in a simplified format.
Features
- About What Is Quire? Features & Functionality
- Is Quire Right for You?
- Who We Are Core Team
- Contributors
- FAQs Are there associated costs?
- Is my project a good candidate?
- Pricing
- Open Source
- Pricing detail
- Free open toolkit
- Platforms
- CLI / Static sites
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