From: John Joyce <dangerwillrobinsondanger@...>
Date: 2007-07-21T01:18:43+09:00
Subject: Re: html 2 pdf


On Jul 18, 2007, at 10:17 AM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:

> David Southwell wrote:
>> 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
>>
>>
>>
>
> If not, you could probably just shell out to the open source htmldoc
> 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/). Or you could
> build something out of "hpricot" and "pdf-writer".
>
>
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.