topic HTML conversion/print utility in Operating System - HP-UX

HTML conversion/print utility

Rick Beck — Tue, 20 Nov 2001 19:53:19 GMT

Does anybody know of a good, non-gui, scriptable tool for rendering HTML into either postscript or PCL for printing?

I've tried html2ps but it lacks some formatting options on the table cell level.

Re: HTML conversion/print utility

Marco Paganini — Tue, 20 Nov 2001 20:01:25 GMT

Hello Rick:

A quick solution would be to use w3m (http://ei5nazha.yz.yamagata-u.ac.jp/~aito/w3m/eng/) with the -dump option. This will generate an ASCII file that you can later pipe to a2ps or something similar.

Regards,
Paga

Re: HTML conversion/print utility

Sridhar Bhaskarla — Tue, 20 Nov 2001 20:21:39 GMT

Rick,

One of the ways is to try to search for "html" in the URL

http://hpux.ee.ualberta.ca/

You will get some converting utilities that may help you.

-Sri

Re: HTML conversion/print utility

Rick Beck — Tue, 20 Nov 2001 20:53:52 GMT

Thanks for the suggestions.

I'd looked at w3m previously but I'm saving saving it as a last resort. Something about unformatting and reformatting to get exactly the same look seems odd to me.

The HP porting archive is where I got w3m and html2ps in the first place.

Re: HTML conversion/print utility

Sebastien Masson — Tue, 20 Nov 2001 21:08:44 GMT

Try a good tool, HTMLDOC: http://www.easysw.com/htmldoc/

This is what I use to generate my DRP report from some ascii file. The program can generate a book with a toc in pdf, ps, ps1 and ps2 from one or many html files

Re: HTML conversion/print utility

Rick Beck — Mon, 26 Nov 2001 16:40:22 GMT

I had tried HTMLDOC before but it was an earlier version that had some issues.
Some early test with the most current version seems to fix most of our issues. Some tweaks in the HTML generation can fix what's left.

Thanks