re: Commandline tool html2pdf

[mbrace7 aim com]

I would go about this in a different way. If you are making a pdf file from the page contents there are several choices to do this.

1. You could actually copy and paste into Open Office and export the file to PDF.
2. A lot depends on the content of the Html file its length for doing the following: To screen shot at full screen and the then use another screen capture programme to cut down the size of the saved file preferably as a jpg and then to copy it into Open Office. Either way a bit messy. PDFediit is quite good indeed and using Wine any of the others such as Nitro PDF and Snagit as a capture programme. An actual way of playing around with pictures is to use a Windows Programme like Paint Shop Pro in Wine.
Moshe

-----Original Message-----
From: Stephen R. van den Berg <srb cuci nl>
To: Christian Persch <chpe gnome org>
Cc: epiphany-list gnome org
Sent: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 9:51 am
Subject: Re: Commandline tool html2pdf

Christian Persch wrote:

>Le Mon, 20 Apr 2009 23:53:13 +0200,

>"Stephen R. van den Berg" <srb cuci nl> a ??crit :

>> 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.



>I think the rasterisation / text issue may depend on the cairo version

>used; IIRC there have been some improvements with newer

>versions (?). Not sure; I haven't been following cairo and gecko

>development lately.



Erm...  I tried this on Ubuntu-jaunty.  I.e. printing the same HTML-page

from epiphany results in a PS/PDF file which is text-searchable; doing this

from gnome-web-photo seems to result in a PS/PDF which contains rasterised

pixel data only.  Shouldn't both programs use the same printing engine/lib?

-- 

Sincerely,

           Stephen R. van den Berg.



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