[geeks] I need an HTML to PDF converter

Tue Feb 21 17:10:54 CST 2006

On Tue, 2006-02-21 at 17:48, Sheldon T. Hall wrote:
> Folks-
> 
> I need a converter that will take HTML and spit out PDF files, do it from
> the UNIX command line, as a batch process.  There will be hundreds of files
> to convert per day, so it needs to be amenable to running from a shell
> script without any user intervention.
> 
> I don't care if it's a PERL/Python/whatever script, C source, or whatever.
> I would need source and some sort of license.  Client is a non-profit mental
> health organization.
> 
> Googling turned up lots of Windows printer drivers and such, but nothing
> obviously suited to this task.
> 
> Does anyone have an suggestions ... anatomically possible ones, that is?

There is a for-pay, and a free version (FOSS) of HTMLDOC:

http://www.htmldoc.org/

There is also html2ps , which you would then pipe through ps2pdf or some other PS --> PDF converter:

http://user.it.uu.se/~jan/html2ps.html

html2ps appears to be more configurable, and URLs are made clickable inside the PDF that is generated.

Cordially

Patrick Giagnocavo
patrick at zill.net