jvdb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My employer is asking for a solution that outputs the content of urls > to pdf. It must be the content as seen within the browser. > Can someone help me on this? It must be able to export several kind of > pages with all kind of content (javascript, etc.)
Sounds like you'd be best off scripting a browser. Eg under KDE you can print to PDF from Konqueror using dcop to remote control it. Here is a demo... start Konqueror, select the PDF printer manually before you start. (You can automate this I expect!) Run dcop konq* to find the id of the running konqueror (in my case "konqueror-18286"), then open a URL dcop konqueror-18286 konqueror-mainwindow#1 openURL http://www.google.com To print to a PDF file dcop konqueror-18286 html-widget2 print 1 Web site converted to PDF in ~/print.pdf ;-) Easy enough to script that with python. See here for some more info on dcop :- http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-dcop/ -- Nick Craig-Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- http://www.craig-wood.com/nick -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
