[geeks] I need an HTML to PDF converter

Michael Parson mparson at bl.org
Tue Feb 21 17:03:30 CST 2006


On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 02:48:32PM -0800, 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?

I've used html2ps out of NetBSD's pkgsrc, seems the webpage for it is: 

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

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Michael Parson
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