Re: How can I batch print html pages

[Andrew Brown <andrewb@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Theo Band wrote:

I thought this was easy, but it turns out to be not so obvious.

My problem:
I have a database with hour registration. I need to print out about hundreds of pages and have them signed by employees. Of course I want to do this automatically. Up to now I have a collection of html pages (got them using wget). So the final thing I want is to print them all out in one go.

How to do that?

I search for a command-line option to convert the html to pdf. Or have firefox/konqueror print them directly without user intervention (there is not a switch like "firefox --print <url>"). Note that the pages are off-line, not on the server. The original pages can only retrieved with after authorization. That's why I used wget with a saved session cookie.

Anyone got an simple solution?

I have not tried this my self, but try using html2ps and ghostscript to generate PDF's

htnl2ps is written ib Perl and can be found at http://user.it.uu.se/~jan/html2ps.html

Syntax: is:

	perl html2ps file.html > file.ps

You can script that through the collection of html files, optionally pushing the postscript output through Ghostscript.

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