On 15/02/07, Theo Band theo.band@xanadu-wireless.com wrote:
I thought this was easy, but it turns out to be not so obvious.
My problem: 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.
How to do that?
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.
Anyone got an simple solution?
Doesn't sending the HTML content to 'lpr' Just Work? I would've thought all the Foomatic filtering magic would've known what to do with HTML, though I don't have a Linux box setup for printing here.
Otherwise, look for html2pdf or html2ps.
Will.