Re: [gentoo-user] Trying to automate HTML ---> pdf

2008-01-28 Thread felix
On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 04:01:12PM +0100, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: > You can check that by running something like > > while true; do > dcop konqueror-8364 konqueror-mainwindow#1 actionIsEnabled stop; > done That will bear protecting against. I have the basic program working, but it does need som

Re: [gentoo-user] Trying to automate HTML ---> pdf

2008-01-28 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Sunday 27 January 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Oh geez, I LOVE it! I will play with it, it just might do the trick. > It's sure not what I had been expecting, but if it works reliably, it > is just the ticket. Java applets and flash animations could possibly cause problems, since they mi

Re: [gentoo-user] Trying to automate HTML ---> pdf

2008-01-27 Thread felix
On Sun, Jan 27, 2008 at 06:56:59PM +0100, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: > However, the following (admittedly *really* kludgy and quick-and-dirty) > method *seems* to work: Oh geez, I LOVE it! I will play with it, it just might do the trick. It's sure not what I had been expecting, but if it works reliab

Re: [gentoo-user] Trying to automate HTML ---> pdf

2008-01-27 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Sunday 27 January 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > dcop konqueror-6352 'konqueror-mainwindow#1' openURL > 'http://slashdot.org' > dcop konqueror-6352 html-widget2 print true > > There's a bit more than that, since widget names change, but a simple > perl program handles it easily (so far!)

Re: [gentoo-user] Trying to automate HTML ---> pdf

2008-01-27 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 27 Jan 2008 09:06:15 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 1. Is there either a DCOP command to wait for a URL to be loaded or a > DCOP command like openURL which waits? I can't see one, but it sounds like it would be useful enough to file a bug report requesting one. A DCOP command to t

[gentoo-user] Trying to automate HTML ---> pdf

2008-01-27 Thread felix
I am trying to automate converting a URL into a pdf file. These web pages include javascript and fancy formatting, so the simple minded converters just don't cut the ice. My next plan was to hack up a real browser so it would take two command line args, the URL and the print file, render the page