Hi
IIs there a gem for converting html to pdf?
I need to build a routine to step through a website and create a pdf
from the
downloaded pages.
Thanks in advance
david Southwell
David S. wrote:
If not, you could probably just shell out to the open source htmldoc
Easy Software Products. There’s a Perl interface you can learn
from, HTML-HTMLDoc
(http://search.cpan.org/~mkfrankl/HTML-HTMLDoc-0.10/). Or you could
build something out of “hpricot” and “pdf-writer”.
On 7/18/07, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky [email protected] wrote:
If not, you could probably just shell out to the open source htmldoc
Easy Software Products. There’s a Perl interface you can learn
from, HTML-HTMLDoc
This would probably work pretty good. I’ve done it before. A ruby
wrapper for this would be most appreciated, if anyone is looking for a
project!
(http://search.cpan.org/~mkfrankl/HTML-HTMLDoc-0.10/). Or you could
build something out of “hpricot” and “pdf-writer”.
If you do this, I suggest using Ruport instead of PDF::Writer for your
PDF stuff. Of course, Ruport just wraps PDF::Writer, but it fixes
some bugs (thanks to Austin Z.) and adds some higher level
features and helps wrap the formatting code.
Some relevant docs if that’s feasible for you:
http://rubyreports.org/cheatsheets/formatting.html
http://ruportbook.com/printable_documents.html
http://ruportbook.com/integration.html#pdf_writer_proxy
http://ruportbook.com/renderer_logic.html
On 7/20/07, John J. [email protected] wrote:
pdf from the
Easy Software Products. There’s a Perl interface you can learn
be GNU tool to do it.
Sure, but nothing I’m aware of that doesn’t require a full browser
renderer
to work. The print to PDF feature as I understand it uses a modified
“driver” that converts the post script output into a PDF doc instead of
sending it to a printer. This is a far cry from just taking an
aribtrary
html file and making it a PDF.
On Jul 18, 2007, at 10:17 AM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:
No Good.
It doesn’t even fully support HTML 4 !
And no support for stylesheets…?
There must be other alternatives.
OS X has built-in print to PDF (has had for many years) so there must
be GNU tool to do it.
On Jul 18, 2007, at 07:56 , David S. wrote:
IIs there a gem for converting html to pdf?
I need to build a routine to step through a website and create a
pdf from the
downloaded pages.
I have one that only works on OSX, but it works well. Lemme know if
you want it and I’ll try to dig it up.
I want it:)