[arch-general] Sending files to printer question

[Gerhard Brauer]

On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 08:58:43AM +1000, richard terry wrote:
> 
> I wondered if there was a command line utility to do the conversion.

You could combine some nice tools
Look at the tools:
html2text and htmldoc
First is an "simple" text parser without formatting.
htmldoc is a complex tool which renders html files to ps, pdf (or html).
With htmldoc you could render complex webpages with many options.

The solution for your problem could a piping party..

wget downloads the html code and pipded it to htmldoc. htmldoc produces
ps or pdf which you pipe to your printer.

One quick example could be (one line):
,----
| wget -O - pages.html http://aur.archlinux.org/index.php | htmldoc --webpage -t ps - | lp
`----
The many single - in the commands are important, this is stdin and stdout

For more options and useful settings look at man htmldoc.

> Richard

Gerhard

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