If you use KDE, you can right click the Title Bar and go to Application Specific Settings (or something like that. I'm on a Mac now :-) ) and configure the windows to always open at the center, for instance. That helps on the "finding the right coordinates to click might not be easy" issue. =)
On 11/28/07, YoYo Siska <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 10:07:10PM +0000, Neil Bothwick wrote: > >> On Tue, 27 Nov 2007 13:53:10 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> > >>> These web pages use Javascript; some render so-so without javascript, > >>> some don't render at all well. What I would like is some firefox (or > >>> Konqueror or ...) command line option to render the page and save it > >>> as any other format -- jpg, pdf, ps, doesn't matter. > >> You could probably do this with a shell script that loads Konqueror > with > >> the given URL and send it DCOP command(s) to print. > > > > I have been fooling around with this and following some of the google > > treasure, and it is a decent substitute for the nice simple command > > line options that I want. But it has a few problems: > > > > 1. The 'print' DCOP command pops up the print menu and requires at > > least one click. I can set the print type (to PDF file) and the > > default file name ahead of time, but I still have to click on > > "Print". > > > > 2. When I pass it the URL to display, it returns immediately, and I > > have to insert a sleep to wait before sending the print command. > > Is there any way to find out when the page is complete? > > > > 3. If I put in a one minute pause to allow even the slowest web sites > > to fully load, that limits how many of these URLs I can process. > > Is there any way to run multiple konqueror sessions at once? > > > > #1 is a real show stopper. The others are merely annoying. > > emerge -av x11-misc/xautomation > xte --help > > it allows you to move mouse, click, send keypresses... > finding the right coordinates to click might not be easy (although the > package contains som programs that allow you to find specific pictures > on screen...) but sending the correct tab and enter sequence should be > enough (I expect just pressing enter in the dialog should be enough) > > you should be able to use this also with firefox > send alt-f, p, few tabs to get to the "print to file", space, enter, > name of the file, enter.... > ;)) > > yoyo > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > -- *Ricardo Saffi Marques* Laboratório de Administração e Segurança de Sistemas (LAS/IC) Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP) *Cell:* +55 (19) 8128-0435 *Skype:* ricardo_saffi_marques *Website:* *http://www.rsaffi.com*
