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Theo Band wrote:
<blockquote cite="mid45D42991.1060005@xanadu-wireless.com" type="cite">I
thought this was easy, but it turns out to be not so obvious.
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My problem:
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I have a database with hour registration. I need to print out about
hundreds of pages and have them signed by employees. Of course I want
to do this automatically. Up to now I have a collection of html pages
(got them using wget). So the final thing I want is to print them all
out in one go.
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How to do that?
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<br>
I search for a command-line option to convert the html to pdf. Or have
firefox/konqueror print them directly without user intervention (there
is not a switch like "firefox --print <url>"). Note that the
pages are off-line, not on the server. The original pages can only
retrieved with after authorization. That's why I used wget with a saved
session cookie.
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Anyone got an simple solution?
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I have not tried this my self, but try using html2ps and ghostscript to
generate PDF's<br>
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htnl2ps is written ib Perl and can be found at
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://user.it.uu.se/~jan/html2ps.html">http://user.it.uu.se/~jan/html2ps.html</a><br>
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Syntax: is:
<pre><tt> perl html2ps file.html > file.ps</tt></pre>
You can script that through the collection of html files, optionally
pushing the postscript output through Ghostscript.<br>
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regards<br>
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<font color="#0000ff">Andrew Brown<br>
</font>Civil & Forensic Pty Ltd<br>
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