Re: [PLUG] html to pdf crawler?

[Andrew Libby <alibby@tangeis.com>]

I believe BrowserCam has a web service they offer that can be used for this.
It's a bit of a cludge, from what I understand.  I believe you need to
submit requests
via the web service, which submits the request to a queue.  They will
then mail you
jpegs as the queue is processed.

Newer versions of Firefox possess the ability to do this for a single
URL.  My bet is
that LWP::UserAgent (perl) could be combined with Firefox to achieve the
desired
result (again, outputting jpeg images).  I'm feeling that with time and
patience you could
coerce Firefox to give PDFs rather than jpegs.

Andy


W. Chris Shank wrote:

> this looks promising - thanks
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: James F. Fiore <jfiore@zmail.absurgery.org>
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> ----- W. Chris Shank <shankwc@acetechgroup.com> wrote:
> > I'm looking for a tool that will crawl a website and convert the html
> > pages to pdf. anyone know of a tool or script that does this?
> >
>
> There's a PERL script called html2ps which you can use to generate
> postscript docs (can be piped to ps2pdf ghostscript tool) to generate
> the PDFs.
>
> Here is a link to the project's home page:
>  http://user.it.uu.se/~jan/html2ps.html
>
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