Converting HTML to PDF non-interactively with konqueror or mozilla

[James R. Jones]

Tom Eastman wrote:
> Hey guys,
>
> Here's an interesting puzzle I'm trying to work out, and I was hoping 
> someone else might have some insight into.
>
> I need to convert HTML files to PDF files, in large numbers, on a 
> regular basis.  There are two tricky points here:
>
> 1. I need the process to be non-interactive, something that I can 
> further automate with shell-scripts or Makefiles or something.
>
> 2. I need the HTML files to be correctly rendered.  Unfortunately, the 
> 'html2ps' program doesn't interpret the pages well enough, I think it's 
> ignoring some of the stylesheets or something.  Otherwise it would be 
> ideal for my task.
>
> Both konqueror (khtml) and mozilla (gecko) can be used to create the 
> PDFs just like how I want them to appear, but both of them require 
> manual, interactive steps (load page, select print, 'print to ps/pdf' or 
> some such).
>
> So the question is, how can I script interactivity with either of these 
> two programs?
>
> Any ideas will be much appreciated!
>
> Cheers,
>
> 	Tom
>
>
>   
Tom,

One quick idea if khtml or gecko is command line driven is to write an 
expect script. 
jim

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