[CentOS] How can I batch print html pages

Sun Feb 18 04:37:39 UTC 2007
David Eckelkamp <deckelkamp at gmail.com>

On 2/15/07, 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?
>
> Thanks,
> Theo


Try HTMLDOC <http://www.htmldoc.org/>  We have used it for one of our
customers and it seems to do  a fine job of converting HTML to PDF. I
haven't used it outside of our product except for some simle tests. It
seemed to do fine with those tests.

DavidE
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