2008/12/27 Ryo Furue <furue@xxxxxxxxxx>:> 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 thisFirefox extension:http://torisugari.googlepages.com/commandlineprint2
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