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Dummy_Guy
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Print webpage from UNIX server

All,
Does anyone know how to print webpage from HP UNIX SERVER?

I heard that we need to change the html file into postscript format, but how?

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Steven Schweda
Honored Contributor

Re: Print webpage from UNIX server

> I heard that we need to change the html
> file into postscript format, but how?

I'd expect a Web browser (Mozilla or Firefox,
say) to do that. Were you expecting to use
one, or were you looking for some alternative
scheme?

The answer may depend on exactly what you
mean by "webpage". (You may know what you
mean, but it's not entirely clear to me.) It
could also depend on what your printer can
do.

Generally, you need to transform something
you want printed into a form which the
printer understands. This is often
PostScript, but could be PCL, or some other
page description language.

Everything is complicated.
Dummy_Guy
Advisor

Re: Print webpage from UNIX server

Hi,
the webpage is a html file, see attached.

So I need to install mozilla or firefox?
James R. Ferguson
Acclaimed Contributor

Re: Print webpage from UNIX server

Hi:

So what's wrong with installing (if its not already installed) 'firefox'? Then you can fetch, display and print the rendered HTML.

Regards!

...JRF...
Dummy_Guy
Advisor

Re: Print webpage from UNIX server

Ok... I will try to install firefox or mozilla and see how it goes.

Cheers,
Steven Schweda
Honored Contributor

Re: Print webpage from UNIX server

Yup, that's HTML.

> So I need to install mozilla or firefox?

A Web browser is a program which renders
HTML, so that would seem to be the
appropriate tool for this job. With any
luck, you might even find some command-line
options which would you get the stuff to a
printer non-interactively.