Print HTML to PDF via Konqueror

[Dotan Cohen]

2008/12/27 Ryo Furue <furue at hawaii.edu>:
> I've been watching this thread with interest because I also like to do
> things like that.  I've been looking around and seen some potential
> solutions.  The general theme I'm pursuing is, how to script
> applications?
>
> One possibility (though I haven't confirmed that it works) is to use
> the plugin "iMacros" on FireFox.  For example, the framework includes
> a command to print the current webpage:
>
>   http://wiki.imacros.net/Demo-Print
>
> I suppose you can edit your macro locally.
> It also seems that macros can be run via URLs:
>
>   http://wiki.imacros.net/iMacros_for_Firefox
>
> So, basically, I guess you can use them from the command line as
>
>  #!/bin/sh
>  macro=.firefox/iMacros/print-url.iim
>  sed -i s[URL-TO-PRINT][http://url.com/to/print/index.html] $macro
>  firefox -new-window "http://your.macro.host.net/print-url.iim"
>
> I'm afraid I don't know how easy or hard this is (or even
> whether it's really possible).
>
> Another possibility is XUL, which seems to be a general
> framework of controlling existing applications through scripting.
> For example, mozilla-xremote-client seems to be using this
> framework.  But, this is very speculative on my part.  I may
> be totally wrong.
>
> On a related note, I want this kind of stuff (controlling apps
> through scripting) to be more readily available on Linux.
> I heard that Microsoft applications can be controlled from
> Visual Basic, like so
>
>  Set xlObj = CreateObject("Excel.application")
>  xlObj.Workbooks.Open "C:\somefile.xls"
>  xlObj.Do things . . .
>  xlObj.Quit
>
> (taken from some website).  I also heard that Mac apps can
> be controlled form Apple Script or Objective C or something.
> How nice.
>
> Regards,
> Ryo
>

The best two solutions that I have found are gnome-web-print and this
Firefox extension:
http://torisugari.googlepages.com/commandlineprint2

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Dotan Cohen

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