Re: Commandline tool html2pdf

[Christian Persch <chpe gnome org>]

Le Wed, 22 Apr 2009 08:51:50 +0200,
"Stephen R. van den Berg" <srb cuci nl> a écrit :

> 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?

This works here for me; printing to PS + using ps2pdf14 to create a pdf
file creates a pdf with searchable text. Using g-w-p from git,
xulrunner 1.9.0.8+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.10.1 and cairo from git.

Did you write the patch to have g-w-p output PDF directly? If so, can
you post it?

	Christian