On 2007-12-19, abhishek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > Hi everyone, I am trying to generate a PDF printable format file from >> > an html page. Is there a way to do this using python. If yes then >> > which library and functions are required and if no then reasons why it >> > cant be done. >> >> Here's one way: >> >> ------------------------------html2pdf.py----------------------------------------- >> #!/usr/bin/python >> import os,sys >> >> inputFilename,outputFilename = sys.argv[1:3] >> >> os.system("w3m -dump %s | a2ps -B --borders=no | ps2pdf - %s" % >> (inputFilename,outputFilename)) >> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> hi grant have tried the command it resulted in the following errors > > sh: a2ps: not found You'll need to install a2ps. It's available as a standard package for all the distros I've ever used. > ESP Ghostscript 815.04: **** Could not open the file /home/samba/users/ > Abhishek/newTemplate.pdf . > **** Unable to open the initial device, quitting. > 256 Either your ghostscript installation is broken, or you've tried to use an output path/file that's not writable. I suspect the latter. -- Grant Edwards grante Yow! Is it 1974? What's at for SUPPER? Can I spend visi.com my COLLEGE FUND in one wild afternoon?? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list