Re: [SLUG] howto convert html to pdf?

2006-11-15 Thread Sonia Hamilton
* On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 06:04:11PM +1100, Adam Kennedy wrote: I just realized that my previous response didn't make it to the list. Something like this should work for you. http://search.cpan.org/~audreyt/PDF-FromHTML-0.20/script/html2pdf.pl Should be just a case of... [EMAIL

Re: [SLUG] howto convert html to pdf?

2006-11-15 Thread Adam Kennedy
I tried it as well, and it looks to me like it's a cross-language dependency problem. The one downside to the CPAN installer (and language-specific source repository installations in general) is that it isn't able to cross language boundaries. It looks like HTML::Tidy needs something called

Re: [SLUG] howto convert html to pdf?

2006-11-14 Thread Sonia Hamilton
* On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 06:01:03PM +1100, Michael Lake wrote: Well it depends on how well formed the HTML is. If its crap it could be hard to create neat, good looking PDF. Here are possibilities: * On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 06:04:11PM +1100, Adam Kennedy wrote: Something like this should

Re: [SLUG] howto convert html to pdf?

2006-11-14 Thread Steve Lindsay
On 11/14/06, Sonia Hamilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I (well my boss actually) want to convert several hundred html pages to pdf - what's the easiest way to do this? Any pointers, ideas? We're using Apache FOP for html - pdf conversion. It might be slightly more involved than the other tools

[SLUG] howto convert html to pdf?

2006-11-13 Thread Sonia Hamilton
I (well my boss actually) want to convert several hundred html pages to pdf - what's the easiest way to do this? Any pointers, ideas? I guess I'm looking for a tool like pdf2html (but going in the reverse direction). I've found a php module called html2pdf [1] - just wondering if there's a stand

Re: [SLUG] howto convert html to pdf?

2006-11-13 Thread Michael Lake
Sonia Hamilton wrote: I (well my boss actually) want to convert several hundred html pages to pdf - what's the easiest way to do this? Any pointers, ideas? I guess I'm looking for a tool like pdf2html (but going in the reverse direction). I've found a php module called html2pdf [1] - just

Re: [SLUG] howto convert html to pdf?

2006-11-13 Thread Adam Kennedy
I just realized that my previous response didn't make it to the list. Something like this should work for you. http://search.cpan.org/~audreyt/PDF-FromHTML-0.20/script/html2pdf.pl Should be just a case of... [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cpan -i PDF::FromHTML [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ html2pdf.pl

Re: [SLUG] howto convert html to pdf?

2006-11-13 Thread Craige McWhirter
On Tue, 2006-11-14 at 17:42 +1100, Sonia Hamilton wrote: I've found a php module called html2pdf [1] - just wondering if there's a stand alone tool callable from the shell. One solution would be to use html2ps then ps2pdf. I at least use ps2pdf daily and it's a good tool. Hopefully html2ps is

Re: [SLUG] howto convert html to pdf?

2006-11-13 Thread David Kempe
Funnily enough we have had a project just recently with the exact same problem. http://htmldoc.org/ htlmdoc is by the people who made CUPS and probably will do unless you have css up the wazoo or something more complex. For the ultimate in rendering ability, embeded mozilla engine via

Re: [SLUG] howto convert html to pdf?

2006-11-13 Thread Lindsay Holmwood
On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 05:42:59PM +1100, Sonia Hamilton wrote: I (well my boss actually) want to convert several hundred html pages to pdf - what's the easiest way to do this? Any pointers, ideas? I guess I'm looking for a tool like pdf2html (but going in the reverse direction). I've