Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Trying to automate HTML ---> pdf

2008-01-29 Thread felix
On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 12:45:41PM +, Stroller wrote: > On 29 Jan 2008, at 07:24, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Konqueror would be even harder, since the binary itself is less than >> 5K and all the functionality presumably comes from the libs. > > That makes me imagine it might actually be _easi

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Trying to automate HTML ---> pdf

2008-01-29 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 29 Jan 2008 21:31:28 +0900, William Kenworthy wrote: > > I think it would be more appropriate to include it in kprinter, but I > > tried "kprinter someurl" and it couldn't handle HTML. > Why not a pdf printer: > > net-print/cups-pdf Because you would still need something to render the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Trying to automate HTML ---> pdf

2008-01-29 Thread Stroller
On 29 Jan 2008, at 07:24, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 05:49:19AM +, Grant Edwards wrote: Here's your chance. Add the feature to Firefox. ;) ... Konqueror would be even harder, since the binary itself is less than 5K and all the functionality presumably comes from the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Trying to automate HTML ---> pdf

2008-01-29 Thread William Kenworthy
On Tue, 2008-01-29 at 08:42 +, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 28 Jan 2008 21:24:37 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > $ konqueror http://url.com/page.html --output page.pdf > > > > > > It seems like a common enough thing to want to do. > > > > I was astounded to not find such an opti

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Trying to automate HTML ---> pdf

2008-01-29 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 28 Jan 2008 21:24:37 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > $ konqueror http://url.com/page.html --output page.pdf > > > > It seems like a common enough thing to want to do. > > I was astounded to not find such an option in either firefox or > konqueror. I think it would be more appropri

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Trying to automate HTML ---> pdf

2008-01-28 Thread felix
On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 05:49:19AM +, Grant Edwards wrote: > Here's your chance. Add the feature to Firefox. ;) I took a look at firefox; it looks like the GUI environment is a pretty big part of things, and it wasn't at all obvious how to get around that. But then again, I only spent a hal

[gentoo-user] Re: Trying to automate HTML ---> pdf

2008-01-28 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2008-01-29, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I don't think so. What I think is odd is that you can't just say >> >> $ konqueror http://url.com/page.html --output page.pdf >> >> It seems like a common enough thing to want to do. It's not that uncommon amon users. It appears i

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Trying to automate HTML ---> pdf

2008-01-28 Thread felix
On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 08:44:03PM -0700, Justin Findlay wrote: > > I don't think so. What I think is odd is that you can't just say > > $ konqueror http://url.com/page.html --output page.pdf > > It seems like a common enough thing to want to do. I was astounded to not find such an option in e

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Trying to automate HTML ---> pdf

2008-01-28 Thread Justin Findlay
On AD 2008 January 27 Sunday 01:43:26 PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I had some problems with some of the more complex web sites, so I > didn't explore this much. One thing I had tried was taking snapshots > to jpeg pictures, but I had no way of telling when the page had > finished loading.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Trying to automate HTML ---> pdf

2008-01-27 Thread felix
On Sun, Jan 27, 2008 at 09:26:33PM +, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2008-01-27, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Firefox doesn't print to pdf, however. > > It'll print to postscript, and ps2pdf has always worked well > for me. I had some problems with some of the more complex w

[gentoo-user] Re: Trying to automate HTML ---> pdf

2008-01-27 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2008-01-27, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Firefox doesn't print to pdf, however. It'll print to postscript, and ps2pdf has always worked well for me. -- Grant Edwards grante Yow! I represent a at s