[CentOS] How can I batch print html pages

Will McDonald wmcdonald at gmail.com
Thu Feb 15 11:29:14 UTC 2007


On 15/02/07, Theo Band <theo.band at 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.



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