On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 09:15:18AM +0000, Dave Cross wrote: >> On 11/1/05, Berna Massingill <bmassing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 09:02:04AM -0800, Leon Pu wrote: >> >> > >> I want to print out the HTML file in its web page format, not the HTML >> > >> source. >> > >> >> > >> It's better to print out the HTML file in web format via one shell >> > >> command likes [htmllpr foo.html]. >> > >> >> > >> If there is no possibility to print out HTML via shell command >> > >> directly, is it possbile to convert the HTML file to PDF or PostScript >> > >> by shell then I can print out? >> > >> >> > >> Thanks for your reply. >> > >> > There's a program "html2ps" that I think will do what you want. It's a >> > Perl script, and a Google search for "html2ps" should find it. >> >> Last time I tried to use that, it was a little clunky. It may have >> improved in the last couple of years though. The most recent version I found with a quick search is very similar to the two-year-old version I've used. "Clunky" is apt, but I've found the program useful for doing with the OP describes, well worth what I paid for it. >> Given that Firefox has a pretty decent 'print to ps' option, it's >> disappointing that you can't access it from the command line. It would >> be great to be able to script stuff like >> >> $ firefox --as_ps http://example.com/ > example.ps >> That would indeed be nice. -- blm
