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New Re: Yeah. Ghostscript is a wonderful EPS or PS to PDF tool.
Web browsers suck at printing. It's a rule of the universe. Doesn't matter what platform, or OS, or browser.

I will investigate other HTML-capable apps and see if they suck a bit less.

Stay tuned :)
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Peter
Shill For Hire
New Gah. Everything sucks.
Test document is the main page of ZIWETHEY, saved from Mozilla 0.9.3.1.

AbiWord - doesn't load HTML.
KWord - loads HTML, throws away everything but the text.
BlueFish - uses an external browser for previewing/printing.

Ideas?
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Peter
Shill For Hire
New Gee. I'd think a Perl guru like Ben should be able to whip
something together pretty easily...

:-)

I've done a little browsing around with Google.

[link|http://xml.apache.org/fop/index.html|FOP] is a Java XSL to PDF tool. Since HTML can be viewed as a subset of HTML, perhaps something like this could be useful. Also on the Apache site above are Perl tools for XML, but nothing seems to be related to PDF output (that I could find).

Adobe has tools for PDF to HTML, but not the other way around (that I've found) and they're limited to Mac and Win.

[link|http://www.pdfzone.com/products/software/tool_activepdfwebgrabber.html|activePDFWinGrabber] is a Win tool which does HTML to PDF.

[link|http://www.pdfzone.com/products/software/tool_html2ps.html|html2ps] is a Perl HTML to PS script. It claims to support much of the HTML4 spec and "incidentally, the PostScript and PDF versions of the HTML 4.0 draft, were generated using html2ps" and "When converting the PostScript document to PDF - using some other program such as version 5.0 or later of Aladdin Ghostscript, or Adobe Acrobat Distiller - the original hyperlinks in the HTML documents will be retained in the PDF document.".

[link|http://www.pdfzone.com/products/software/tool_HTMLDOC.html|HTMLDOC] has similar claims about some HTML 4 support.

Looks like the last 2 links above are worth investigating.

HTH.

Cheers,
Scott.
     HTML 2 PDF? - (ben_tilly) - (13)
         Obvious answer: Ghostscript? -NT - (tseliot) - (10)
             Ghostscript does HTML? GSView v4 doesn't seem to. -NT - (Another Scott) - (7)
                 Re: Ghostscript does HTML? GSView v4 doesn't seem to. - (pwhysall) - (6)
                     Update: Seems possible - (pwhysall) - (5)
                         Workee! - (pwhysall) - (4)
                             Yeah. Ghostscript is a wonderful EPS or PS to PDF tool. - (Another Scott) - (3)
                                 Re: Yeah. Ghostscript is a wonderful EPS or PS to PDF tool. - (pwhysall) - (2)
                                     Gah. Everything sucks. - (pwhysall) - (1)
                                         Gee. I'd think a Perl guru like Ben should be able to whip - (Another Scott)
             Didn't see HTML support in it - (ben_tilly) - (1)
                 As discussed above, print from browser (or any app) to PDF. - (tseliot)
         html2ps, ps2pdf - (kmself) - (1)
             Re: html2ps, ps2pdf - (pwhysall)

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