Re: Commandline tool html2pdf
- From: "Stephen R. van den Berg" <srb cuci nl>
- To: Christian Persch <chpe gnome org>
- Cc: epiphany-list gnome org
- Subject: Re: Commandline tool html2pdf
- Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 23:53:13 +0200
Christian Persch wrote:
>Le Mon, 20 Apr 2009 18:07:05 +0200,
>"Stephen R. van den Berg" <srb cuci nl> a ??crit :
>> On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 17:49, Christian Persch <chpe gnome org>
>> wrote:
>> > I say "almost" because it currently only prints to PostScript; but
>> > adding a PDF option should be straightforward. It just needs a new
>> > option and set a flag in the print code forwarding the setting to
>> > xulrunner.
>> PDF instead of Postscript is trivial (indeed). I'm currently trying
>> to compile this under Debian, any hints as to which packages I need to
>> have installed? glib-gettext seems to be a bit elusive.
>I think "sudo apt-get build-dep epiphany-browser" should pull in
>everything that's necessary (quite a bit more than what's strictly
>necessary probably). It needs xulrunner 1.9, so you have to have the
>latest debian release, or unstable, not an older stable release.
That works. However, there are two downsides to gnome-web-photo:
a. It appears that the output is rasterised in any case (this results in
rather ugly and bulky PDF files).
b. Since the output is rasterised: searching in the pdf becomes impossible,
and clickable links in the pdf become unclickable.
--
Sincerely,
Stephen R. van den Berg.
"Technology is stuff that doesn't work yet." -- Bran Ferren
"We no longer think of chairs as technology." -- Douglas Adams
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