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**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [July 18, 2007, 4:57pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/html-2-pdf/109752 "2007-07-18T16:57:16Z")\
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**Author:**  [@davidstokar](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/davidstokar)\
**Post date:** [July 18, 2007, 4:57pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/html-2-pdf/109752/1 "2007-07-18T16:57:16Z")
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
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**Author:**  [@davidstokar](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/davidstokar)\
**Post date:** [July 18, 2007, 5:18pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/html-2-pdf/109752/2 "2007-07-18T17:18:22Z")
David S. wrote:
>
If not, you could probably just shell out to the open source htmldoc
[Easy Software Products](http://www.easysw.com/htmldoc/). There’s a Perl interface you can learn
from, HTML-HTMLDoc
([http://search.cpan.org/~mkfrankl/HTML-HTMLDoc-0.10/](http://search.cpan.org/~mkfrankl/HTML-HTMLDoc-0.10/)). Or you could
build something out of “hpricot” and “pdf-writer”.
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**Author:**  [@davidstokar](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/davidstokar)\
**Post date:** [July 18, 2007, 7:10pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/html-2-pdf/109752/3 "2007-07-18T19:10:31Z")
On 7/18/07, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:
> If not, you could probably just shell out to the open source htmldoc
> [Easy Software Products](http://www.easysw.com/htmldoc/). 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/](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://rubyreports.org/cheatsheets/formatting.html)
[http://ruportbook.com/printable\_documents.html](http://ruportbook.com/printable_documents.html)
[http://ruportbook.com/integration.html#pdf\_writer\_proxy](http://ruportbook.com/integration.html#pdf_writer_proxy)
[http://ruportbook.com/renderer\_logic.html](http://ruportbook.com/renderer_logic.html)
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**Author:**  [@davidstokar](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/davidstokar)\
**Post date:** [July 20, 2007, 6:32pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/html-2-pdf/109752/4 "2007-07-20T18:32:44Z")
On 7/20/07, John J. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:
> > > pdf from the
> > > [Easy Software Products](http://www.easysw.com/htmldoc/). 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
> > > print
> > > “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.
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**Author:**  [@davidstokar](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/davidstokar)\
**Post date:** [July 20, 2007, 6:19pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/html-2-pdf/109752/5 "2007-07-20T18:19:42Z")
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.
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**Author:**  [@davidstokar](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/davidstokar)\
**Post date:** [July 20, 2007, 11:01pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/html-2-pdf/109752/6 "2007-07-20T23:01:17Z")
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.
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**Author:**  [@davidstokar](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/davidstokar)\
**Post date:** [July 20, 2007, 11:03pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/html-2-pdf/109752/7 "2007-07-20T23:03:17Z")
I want it:)