[CF List] spell summary

Kevin R. Bulgrien kbulgrien at worldnet.att.net
Sat Aug 17 15:19:20 CDT 2002


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      I can understand the desire to have just a single file that contains all the information.  I wonder if there is a HTML -> pdf tool.  I guess worst case is it can be done as HTML -> postscript, and I think ghostscript can do ps -> pdf.
     
     
The linux ps2pdf command offers a solution.  Just print your html page on
a postscript printer driver, but print to file instead of to the printer.
I have a script I wrote that runs in the background, converting any ps
files that are dropped into a particular directory.

I realize this isn't a direct, automated html to pdf conversion, but,
anybody with a linux machine can do this. 

An oddity about html->pdf conversion is that html is not generally rendered
to a particular size... and is not paginated. The pagination issue is not
insignificant.

I think it would not be hard to have a tabular format that a script could be
used to build HTML output so that someone does not have to use a wysiwig 
editor or know about html authoring.  I have written scripts like this
before.  The build process could automatically do the work.  If a paginated
output is desired, that could be addressed too.


    
    


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