On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 05:30, Dotan Cohen <dotanco...@gmail.com> wrote: > I need to convert an HTML document to PDF from the CLI. Currently, I > am using a Firefox extension to do this: > http://torisugari.googlepages.com/commandlineprint2 > > However, this has many drawbacks and I would like to remove the > dependency on Firefox. These are other solutions that I have looked > into, and their problems: > > 1) CUPS > Prints the HTML, not the formatted output. It treats the whole document as > text.
Expected, since html is text, and cups has no html parser > 2) html2ps > Does not work with UTF-8 text! That is just pathetic in this day and age. > 3) Open Office > Requires either a macro or a wrapper script, both which are > problematic and change each new OOo version (which I update often). Definitely a problem. > 4) convert (from imagemagick) > Does not support UTF-8! Sad. > 5) gnome-web-print > Slight formatting problems with HTML tables. However, it is my > runner-up so far as it is the only other solution that works at all. > > > > Any other ideas? Is there a konqueror- or KDE way to do this? Am I > missing something obvious? Thanks! a2ps can use lynx, but I doubt you want lynx-like output. There are some headless "browsers" out there, but most seem to be about testing, not output or they output images, not ps/pdf. There is some discussion here: http://www.holovaty.com/writing/headless-html-rendering-engine/ Sounds like someone needs to write a CLI app that makes use of a headless Webkit. Cheers, Kelly Clowers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
