print to pdf

[Florian Diesch]

Gabriel Dragffy <dragffy at yandex.ru> wrote:

> Is there anyway to print webpages I view in firefox to PDF? I go to the print
> dialogue but only postscript is listed. Is it possible to print to PDF?

More a kind of a work around:

Save the following script (say /usr/local/bin/topdf), make it executable 
(chmod a+rw /usr/local/bin/topdf). In firefox go to the printing dialog
and change the print command in the printer properties to /usr/local/bin/topdf.


,----[ topdf ]
| #!/bin/sh
| 
| name="`zenity --title="Print to PDF file" --text='Enter filename:' --entry`"
| 
| if [ $? -gt 0 ]; then exit 1; fi
| name="/tmp/$name.pdf"
| 
| ps2pdf - "$name"
`----

Now when printing a simple dialogs opens where you can give
a filename. The page is then printed to /tmp/filename.pdf with filename
replaced to whatever to entered.



   Florian
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