Thanks. I've seen a tool or two that converts HTML to PDF in the past but I immediately shied away from them for the following reasons.
1. I figured HTML was just too loosey-goosey with the layout. I wanted better control. 2. I figured HTML didn't deal with paging and repeating page headers, column titles, and page numbers on each page. Am I wrong? I have to say, groff/tbl fits the bill well. Thanks! Blake On Tue, Jul 24, 2018 at 1:15 PM John Gardner <gardnerjo...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Blake, great to hear! Always nice to hear another Troff success story. > =) > > I know the feeling about finding decent PDF converters. The best one I > know of is wkhtmltopdf <https://wkhtmltopdf.org/>, which uses WebKit's > rendering engine to convert an HTML/CSS-enriched webpage into a > correctly-layered and paged PDF. Tables looked great and scaled perfectly > across pages. > > I strongly recommend wkhtmltopdf <https://wkhtmltopdf.org/> to anybody > else who finds themselves in need of a decent HTML-to-PDF converter. > > On 25 July 2018 at 03:26, Blake McBride <bl...@mcbride.name> wrote: > >> A few years ago I thought of a really, really good use for groff and tbl. >> Thought I'd share. >> >> I write (web-based) business applications. Often I have to generate >> reports which largely mean PDF files. In the past, I used some >> open-source >> PDF generation utilities. They worked, but what a nightmare! Handling >> paging and lining everything up took hours. >> >> Then, a few years ago, I thought of generating groff/tbl input instead and >> then calling those tools to generate the final PDF output. This made my >> ability to produce reports skyrocket. I have a deep love of troff but >> don't get to use it as much as I'd like. Now I'll be using it all of the >> time. >> >> This is a great use of groff et al. I will be using it all of the time >> now! >> >> Blake McBride >> > >
