Converting HTML to PDF non-interactively with konqueror or mozilla

[wim delvaux]

html2ps ?

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On Wednesday 07 February 2007 23:28:17 James R. Jones wrote:
> 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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> James Jones
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