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I need to convert web pages to PDF files under program control, |
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perhaps from cron, perhaps a backgrounded batch job. An X window |
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enviornment could probably be set up, but I'd prefer not going thru |
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that hassle. Point and click manual intervention just won't do. |
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These web pages use Javascript; some render so-so without javascript, |
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some don't render at all well. What I would like is some firefox (or |
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Konqueror or ...) command line option to render the page and save it |
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as any other format -- jpg, pdf, ps, doesn't matter. Cups-pdf sounds |
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like it might help, if I could use command line options to tell |
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firefox to print the page. I see that firefox 3 will have a print to |
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PDF option, and that might be good enough, but it's not available now, |
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and there'd need to be some way of starting firefox and telling it to |
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print under program control. |
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Firefox has some command line options to help, such as height and |
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width. And none of them (that I can find) do anything useful like |
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print to pdf and exit. |
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I am open to any suggestions which can be automated. If a perl |
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program could run firefox as a child under X and feed it X input, or a |
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perl CPAN module which understands javascript, or even if there are |
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commercial programs which do this, I am all ears. |
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