Re: [gentoo-user] Converting HTML to PDF or PS -- DCOP Q now

[Ricardo Saffi Marques]

If you use KDE, you can right click the Title Bar and go to Application
Specific Settings (or something like that. I'm on a Mac now :-) ) and
configure the windows to always open at the center, for instance. That helps
on the "finding the right coordinates to click might not be easy" issue. =)

On 11/28/07, YoYo Siska <yoyo@××××××.sk> wrote:
>
> felix@×××××××.com wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 10:07:10PM +0000, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> >> On Tue, 27 Nov 2007 13:53:10 -0800, felix@×××××××.com wrote:
> >>
> >>> These web pages use Javascript; some render so-so without javascript,
> >>> some don't render at all well.  What I would like is some firefox (or
> >>> Konqueror or ...)  command line option to render the page and save it
> >>> as any other format -- jpg, pdf, ps, doesn't matter.
> >> You could probably do this with a shell script that loads Konqueror
> with
> >> the given URL and send it DCOP command(s) to print.
> >
> > I have been fooling around with this and following some of the google
> > treasure, and it is a decent substitute for the nice simple command
> > line options that I want.  But it has a few problems:
> >
> > 1.  The 'print' DCOP command pops up the print menu and requires at
> >     least one click.  I can set the print type (to PDF file) and the
> >     default file name ahead of time, but I still have to click on
> >     "Print".
> >
> > 2.  When I pass it the URL to display, it returns immediately, and I
> >     have to insert a sleep to wait before sending the print command.
> >     Is there any way to find out when the page is complete?
> >
> > 3.  If I put in a one minute pause to allow even the slowest web sites
> >     to fully load, that limits how many of these URLs I can process.
> >     Is there any way to run multiple konqueror sessions at once?
> >
> > #1 is a real show stopper.  The others are merely annoying.
>
> emerge -av x11-misc/xautomation
> xte --help
>
> it allows you to move mouse, click, send keypresses...
> finding the right coordinates to click might not be easy (although the
> package contains som programs that allow you to find specific pictures
> on screen...) but sending the correct  tab and enter sequence should be
> enough (I expect just pressing enter in the dialog should be enough)
>
> you should be able to use this also with firefox
> send alt-f, p, few tabs to get to the "print to file", space, enter,
> name of the file, enter....
> ;))
>
> yoyo
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