HTML conversion/print utility

[Rick Beck]

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.

[Marco Paganini]

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

[Sridhar Bhaskarla]

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

[Rick Beck]

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.

[Sebastien Masson · Accepted solution]

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

[Rick Beck]

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