Best command line tool to convert a webpage to a pdf file?
Richard Kimber
richardkimber at politicsresources.net
Mon Feb 12 13:03:06 UTC 2018
On Mon, 12 Feb 2018 11:04:35 +0100
Oliver Grawert <ogra at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> yes, libreoffice can do that easily ...
>
> libreoffice.writer --headless --norestore --writer \
> --convert-to pdf $URL
>
> but note that there is no way to define the output filename, it will
> use the name of the input file, so if your URL ends in / you end up
> with a file just called ".html" (you probably want to wrap a script
> around the line above to give the file a proper name)
I'm using Version: 5.1.6.2 on 16.04.3 and for that, at least, it needs
to be:
libreoffice --headless --norestore --writer --convert-to pdf $URL
- Richard
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Richard Kimber
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