Re: [gentoo-user] Converting HTML to PDF or PS
You wrote I need to convert web pages to PDF files under program control, * app-text/htmldoc [N 1.8.27] target Convert HTML pages into a PDF document -fltk ssl Use flags: * fltk: Adds support for the Fast Light Toolkit gui interface * ssl: Adds support for Secure Socket Layer connections ralf -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Converting HTML to PDF or PS
On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 11:14:33AM +0100, Ralf Stephan wrote: You wrote I need to convert web pages to PDF files under program control, * app-text/htmldoc [N 1.8.27] target Convert HTML pages into a PDF document -fltk ssl I tried, but it has too many deficiencies, and doesn't support javascript. The pages don't render well enough. * fltk: Adds support for the Fast Light Toolkit gui interface I need to it run under program control, not a gui. I could do gui with firefox. -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. Felix Finch: scarecrow repairman rocket surgeon / [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG = E987 4493 C860 246C 3B1E 6477 7838 76E9 182E 8151 ITAR license #4933 I've found a solution to Fermat's Last Theorem but I see I've run out of room o -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Converting HTML to PDF or PS -- DCOP Q now
On Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 10:07:10PM +, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 27 Nov 2007 13:53:10 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: These web pages use Javascript; some render so-so without javascript, some don't render at all well. What I would like is some firefox (or Konqueror or ...) command line option to render the page and save it as any other format -- jpg, pdf, ps, doesn't matter. You could probably do this with a shell script that loads Konqueror with the given URL and send it DCOP command(s) to print. I have been fooling around with this and following some of the google treasure, and it is a decent substitute for the nice simple command line options that I want. But it has a few problems: 1. The 'print' DCOP command pops up the print menu and requires at least one click. I can set the print type (to PDF file) and the default file name ahead of time, but I still have to click on Print. 2. When I pass it the URL to display, it returns immediately, and I have to insert a sleep to wait before sending the print command. Is there any way to find out when the page is complete? 3. If I put in a one minute pause to allow even the slowest web sites to fully load, that limits how many of these URLs I can process. Is there any way to run multiple konqueror sessions at once? #1 is a real show stopper. The others are merely annoying. -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. Felix Finch: scarecrow repairman rocket surgeon / [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG = E987 4493 C860 246C 3B1E 6477 7838 76E9 182E 8151 ITAR license #4933 I've found a solution to Fermat's Last Theorem but I see I've run out of room o -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Converting HTML to PDF or PS -- DCOP Q now
On Wed, 28 Nov 2007 08:37:16 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. The 'print' DCOP command pops up the print menu and requires at least one click. I can set the print type (to PDF file) and the default file name ahead of time, but I still have to click on Print. Browsing kdcop, the print option accepts an option boolean argument, quick. This skips the print requester. Try 'print 1' instead of 'print'. 2. When I pass it the URL to display, it returns immediately, and I have to insert a sleep to wait before sending the print command. Is there any way to find out when the page is complete? ISTR there's a dcop comand to test whether a page has finished loading. -- Neil Bothwick Midget psychic escapes from prison, small medium at large! signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Converting HTML to PDF or PS -- DCOP Q now
On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 05:18:03PM +, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 28 Nov 2007 08:37:16 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. The 'print' DCOP command pops up the print menu and requires at least one click. I can set the print type (to PDF file) and the default file name ahead of time, but I still have to click on Print. Browsing kdcop, the print option accepts an option boolean argument, quick. This skips the print requester. Try 'print 1' instead of 'print'. Unfortunately, it then ignores the default changes I've made and tries to print straight to a non-existent printer. I'm going to subscribe to the kde mailing list. I think this is getting a bit away from gentoo-specific, but I will post any useful answers here. -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. Felix Finch: scarecrow repairman rocket surgeon / [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG = E987 4493 C860 246C 3B1E 6477 7838 76E9 182E 8151 ITAR license #4933 I've found a solution to Fermat's Last Theorem but I see I've run out of room o -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Converting HTML to PDF or PS -- DCOP Q now
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 10:07:10PM +, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 27 Nov 2007 13:53:10 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: These web pages use Javascript; some render so-so without javascript, some don't render at all well. What I would like is some firefox (or Konqueror or ...) command line option to render the page and save it as any other format -- jpg, pdf, ps, doesn't matter. You could probably do this with a shell script that loads Konqueror with the given URL and send it DCOP command(s) to print. I have been fooling around with this and following some of the google treasure, and it is a decent substitute for the nice simple command line options that I want. But it has a few problems: 1. The 'print' DCOP command pops up the print menu and requires at least one click. I can set the print type (to PDF file) and the default file name ahead of time, but I still have to click on Print. 2. When I pass it the URL to display, it returns immediately, and I have to insert a sleep to wait before sending the print command. Is there any way to find out when the page is complete? 3. If I put in a one minute pause to allow even the slowest web sites to fully load, that limits how many of these URLs I can process. Is there any way to run multiple konqueror sessions at once? #1 is a real show stopper. The others are merely annoying. emerge -av x11-misc/xautomation xte --help it allows you to move mouse, click, send keypresses... finding the right coordinates to click might not be easy (although the package contains som programs that allow you to find specific pictures on screen...) but sending the correct tab and enter sequence should be enough (I expect just pressing enter in the dialog should be enough) you should be able to use this also with firefox send alt-f, p, few tabs to get to the print to file, space, enter, name of the file, enter ;)) yoyo -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Converting HTML to PDF or PS -- DCOP Q now
If you use KDE, you can right click the Title Bar and go to Application Specific Settings (or something like that. I'm on a Mac now :-) ) and configure the windows to always open at the center, for instance. That helps on the finding the right coordinates to click might not be easy issue. =) On 11/28/07, YoYo Siska [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 10:07:10PM +, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 27 Nov 2007 13:53:10 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: These web pages use Javascript; some render so-so without javascript, some don't render at all well. What I would like is some firefox (or Konqueror or ...) command line option to render the page and save it as any other format -- jpg, pdf, ps, doesn't matter. You could probably do this with a shell script that loads Konqueror with the given URL and send it DCOP command(s) to print. I have been fooling around with this and following some of the google treasure, and it is a decent substitute for the nice simple command line options that I want. But it has a few problems: 1. The 'print' DCOP command pops up the print menu and requires at least one click. I can set the print type (to PDF file) and the default file name ahead of time, but I still have to click on Print. 2. When I pass it the URL to display, it returns immediately, and I have to insert a sleep to wait before sending the print command. Is there any way to find out when the page is complete? 3. If I put in a one minute pause to allow even the slowest web sites to fully load, that limits how many of these URLs I can process. Is there any way to run multiple konqueror sessions at once? #1 is a real show stopper. The others are merely annoying. emerge -av x11-misc/xautomation xte --help it allows you to move mouse, click, send keypresses... finding the right coordinates to click might not be easy (although the package contains som programs that allow you to find specific pictures on screen...) but sending the correct tab and enter sequence should be enough (I expect just pressing enter in the dialog should be enough) you should be able to use this also with firefox send alt-f, p, few tabs to get to the print to file, space, enter, name of the file, enter ;)) yoyo -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- *Ricardo Saffi Marques* Laboratório de Administração e Segurança de Sistemas (LAS/IC) Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP) *Cell:* +55 (19) 8128-0435 *Skype:* ricardo_saffi_marques *Website:* *http://www.rsaffi.com*
Re: [gentoo-user] Converting HTML to PDF or PS -- DCOP Q now
On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 11:06:25PM +0100, YoYo Siska wrote: emerge -av x11-misc/xautomation xte --help This could be useful. I have downloaded the firefox sources and am carwling thru, trying to see how much trouble a customized --print option would be. It is sleep inducing :-) -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. Felix Finch: scarecrow repairman rocket surgeon / [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG = E987 4493 C860 246C 3B1E 6477 7838 76E9 182E 8151 ITAR license #4933 I've found a solution to Fermat's Last Theorem but I see I've run out of room o -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Converting HTML to PDF or PS
I need to convert web pages to PDF files under program control, perhaps from cron, perhaps a backgrounded batch job. An X window enviornment could probably be set up, but I'd prefer not going thru that hassle. Point and click manual intervention just won't do. These web pages use Javascript; some render so-so without javascript, some don't render at all well. What I would like is some firefox (or Konqueror or ...) command line option to render the page and save it as any other format -- jpg, pdf, ps, doesn't matter. Cups-pdf sounds like it might help, if I could use command line options to tell firefox to print the page. I see that firefox 3 will have a print to PDF option, and that might be good enough, but it's not available now, and there'd need to be some way of starting firefox and telling it to print under program control. Firefox has some command line options to help, such as height and width. And none of them (that I can find) do anything useful like print to pdf and exit. I am open to any suggestions which can be automated. If a perl program could run firefox as a child under X and feed it X input, or a perl CPAN module which understands javascript, or even if there are commercial programs which do this, I am all ears. -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. Felix Finch: scarecrow repairman rocket surgeon / [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG = E987 4493 C860 246C 3B1E 6477 7838 76E9 182E 8151 ITAR license #4933 I've found a solution to Fermat's Last Theorem but I see I've run out of room o -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Converting HTML to PDF or PS
On Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 02:14:50PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can you expand on that? What are DCOP commands and how would I sent them to Konqueror? Is this easy enough with, say, Perl? Never mind, google is my friend. This looks like it might do th etrick. I have to find some way of using DCOP to print to PDF, and I have to worry about setting up a KDE environment, but it looks doable. -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. Felix Finch: scarecrow repairman rocket surgeon / [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG = E987 4493 C860 246C 3B1E 6477 7838 76E9 182E 8151 ITAR license #4933 I've found a solution to Fermat's Last Theorem but I see I've run out of room o -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Converting HTML to PDF or PS
On Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 10:07:10PM +, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 27 Nov 2007 13:53:10 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: These web pages use Javascript; some render so-so without javascript, some don't render at all well. What I would like is some firefox (or Konqueror or ...) command line option to render the page and save it as any other format -- jpg, pdf, ps, doesn't matter. You could probably do this with a shell script that loads Konqueror with the given URL and send it DCOP command(s) to print. Can you expand on that? What are DCOP commands and how would I sent them to Konqueror? Is this easy enough with, say, Perl? -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. Felix Finch: scarecrow repairman rocket surgeon / [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG = E987 4493 C860 246C 3B1E 6477 7838 76E9 182E 8151 ITAR license #4933 I've found a solution to Fermat's Last Theorem but I see I've run out of room o -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
