Re: Question

From: Peter T. Breuer (ptb_at_oboe.it.uc3m.es)
Date: 08/22/03 

Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2003 18:31:10 +0200

Steven Scott <sscott@invatron.com> wrote:
> I am looking to be able to print HTML documents from a linux
> command line via scripts (without user intervention) and I was wondering

lynx -source .. | a2ps ...

> if you know of any tool that may do this. I have looked around the web

> for printing with Linux, but pretty much everything I find is for
> setting up printing, not actually doing the printing. I can convert the
> HTML if another tool will do that in the script. I also require that
> all the graphics, formatting, etc... be maintained.

Err. You are confused. Html does not specify the physical layout of a
document, so there is not "graphics, formatting, etc." to be
maintained. It's entirely up to your browser, by definition, what it
cares to do.

That said, there are tons of html2FOO tarnslators out on the net.
html2latex springs to mind.

Peter

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