Dear WebKit developers I'm the developer of a small open-source utility named "wkpdf" which is basically a command-line interface to the WebKit framework on Mac OS X (see http://wkpdf.plesslweb.ch). The goal of wkdpf is to allow rendering HTML to PDF files from the command line. A number of options allow for setting the paper format, margins, enable background image rendering, etc.
Although any HTML renderer should be able to perform this task, the choice of comparable tools is surprisingly small. No browser I know of implements a non-interactive command-line rendering mode. There are few specialized tools, e.g., htmldoc (http://www.easysw.com/htmldoc/) which converts simple HTML files to PDF, but the feature set of htmldoc is very limited. For high-end applications, there is a tool named Prince (http://www.princexml.com/) that is quite powerful but too expensive for casual or hobbyist use. In contrast, wkpdf leverages WebKit's excellent rendering capabilities and OS X's native PDF support to implement a HTML to PDF rendering tool that - thanks to WebKit - supports the latest CSS standards. Given the latest developments in CSS, e.g. pagination or columns, wkpdf could be even used for typesetting books written in HTML and CSS. wkpdf started as a toy project and it is still in its infancy but I think such a tool could be really useful for many users and also promotes the use of WebKit in non-interactive applications. Unfortunately, I don't have the time to working on wkpdf anymore. Thus I'm looking for a new maintainer or other ways to keep wkpdf alive. For example, I would be happy to contribute the wkpdf sources to the WebKit team. If you think that integration of wkpdf into the WebKit repository is useful, or if you would like to be the new maintainer for wkpdf please let me know via this mailing list or private email. Best regards, Christian _______________________________________________ webkit-dev mailing list webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev