Print HTML file via shell command
Berna Massingill
bmassing at cs.trinity.edu
Thu Nov 3 07:40:19 UTC 2005
On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 09:15:18AM +0000, Dave Cross wrote:
>> On 11/1/05, Berna Massingill <bmassing at cs.trinity.edu> wrote:
>> > On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 09:02:04AM -0800, Leon Pu wrote:
>>
>> > >> I want to print out the HTML file in its web page format, not the HTML
>> > >> source.
>> > >>
>> > >> It's better to print out the HTML file in web format via one shell
>> > >> command likes [htmllpr foo.html].
>> > >>
>> > >> If there is no possibility to print out HTML via shell command
>> > >> directly, is it possbile to convert the HTML file to PDF or PostScript
>> > >> by shell then I can print out?
>> > >>
>> > >> Thanks for your reply.
>> >
>> > There's a program "html2ps" that I think will do what you want. It's a
>> > Perl script, and a Google search for "html2ps" should find it.
>>
>> Last time I tried to use that, it was a little clunky. It may have
>> improved in the last couple of years though.
The most recent version I found with a quick search is very similar
to the two-year-old version I've used. "Clunky" is apt, but I've
found the program useful for doing with the OP describes, well worth
what I paid for it.
>> Given that Firefox has a pretty decent 'print to ps' option, it's
>> disappointing that you can't access it from the command line. It would
>> be great to be able to script stuff like
>>
>> $ firefox --as_ps http://example.com/ > example.ps
>>
That would indeed be nice.
-- blm
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