Suggestion: Show pagination status while in progress

[grgDek]

Hello Evan,

Above all thank you for the hard work you did here. I discovered Bindery a year ago, I used it in several editorial projects and I love it !
I tried to figure out how to get feedback from Bindery while book is binding, I want to display realtime building pages on a "onload" page. Like you did for HTMLOutput Risd fall 2014 where there is a "building 'n' page". I checked out the code of some projects where there is it but I don't success yet, could you help ?
Thanks a lot.

Desktop:

• Ubuntu 18.04.4 & Browser: [Chrome, Brave, Firefox]
• bindery.js version [2.2.9]

[evnbr]

hi @grgDek , i can consider bringing something like that back, just got dropped in various refactors in favor of the progress bar. Can you say more about what you liked about that specifically— are you just looking to give users some reassurance that bindery is working correctly for a large book, and the progress bar doesn't feel like enough? or did you want to emphasize the page count specifically for a particular reason?

[grgDek]

Hello Evan !
Thanks for your answer :—)
It's rather to add a practical side, reassuring in a way, but also to give user a "maximum" of information about what's going on in the background, even for me as a junior "dev".
E.g I am working with bindery to generate an artist's portfolio from her website. She checks projects she wants to print and so she needs to know how much pages are generated (cultural structures often require a limited number of pages), and because it's a portfolio there are big HQ images that slowdown the binding. In this particular case, the progress bar seems to be an abstractive way of showing what is behind.
Kindest regards :—}

[evnbr]

Ah, thanks for explaining the use case, really helpful. a few followups...

1. Showing more information makes sense. Sounds like it could also be useful to indicate when bindery is waiting for images as well?
2. It sounds like for this artist, it would be useful to see the page count after it's completed too, not only while loading?

[grgDek]

1 & 2 : Yes exactly ! something like "waiting for images", "binding nth page", "nth pages built in ... secondes", etc. But I don't know how to fetch those infos from the javascript process