Html to PDF convertor

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Re: Html to PDF convertor by Joost (Canon) on Sep 20, 2006 at 12:30 UTC
Sounds like you don't have htmldoc installed. From the docs: This Module provides an OO-interface to the htmldoc programm. To install this module you have to install the htmldoc program first. You can get it from http://www.htmldoc.org . "What should it profit a man, if he should win a flame war, yet lose his cool?"	[reply]
Re^2: Html to PDF convertor by bart (Canon) on Sep 21, 2006 at 07:37 UTC
Another bad point for CPAN: nowhere in the installation is the presence or absence of the `htmldoc` program tested for, or even mentioned. There's even no standardized way in the MakeMaker utils to list it. It is a dependency, isn't it? It's the same with external libraries, those dependencies aren't checked either. ("probably harmless", yeah, right.) This dependency is the reason for the huge amount of test failures on CPAN Testers. But if you don't look at the report very closely, you won't even see what is wrong. This is very user-unfriendly, for anybody who isn't at least a sysadmin by profession.	[reply]
Re^3: Html to PDF convertor by Joost (Canon) on Sep 21, 2006 at 09:27 UTC
True enough. Currently, I'm leaning towards using `pkg-config` in Makefile.PL to test for "outside-perl" libraries and compiler flags. Ofcourse that means another dependency, but at least you can easily croak out of Makefile.PL if you can't run pkg-config. I'm not sure if there are better ways to do it. "What should it profit a man, if he should win a flame war, yet lose his cool?"	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Html to PDF convertor by hgolden (Pilgrim) on Sep 20, 2006 at 12:32 UTC
Hey, Have you tried PDF::FromHTML? Hays	[reply]
Re: Html to PDF convertor by leocharre (Priest) on Sep 20, 2006 at 14:44 UTC
Just in case one should 'empower' the rest of the people in the office: pdfizer. I just remember doing this myself before when something else was perhaps what was needed. Please keep in mind I don't know your situation. What's linux 9? Perl 5? You can do `# perl -v` on your terminal to get the version of your perl. there are differences between 5.x.x and 5.y.y ~~For the os, you can do # echo `uname -r`~~ update (sorry you don't need echo.. i'm running a fever.) uname gives system info, interesting is like uname -a for all , uname -r is kernel ver, often distro info can be there. `uname -r`	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: Html to PDF convertor by rbi (Monk) on Sep 20, 2006 at 15:59 UTC
I've installed html2ps, written in Perl, and Ghostscript that has the ps2pdf utility. then you could do something like: my $HTML2PS = '/usr/local/bin/html2ps -L'; my $PS2PDF = '/usr/bin/ps2pdf'; my $plot_file_base = 'whatever'; # First create an HTML file (or slurp it from file) my $h2p = "<html><head></head><body> <img src=$pngfile> </body></html>"; my $file_to_ps = $plot_file_base.'_to_ps.htm'; open (FH,">$file_to_ps") or die "cannot open $file_to_ps: $!\n"; print FH $h2p; close(FH); # Then create a ps file my $file_ps = $plot_file_base.'.ps'; system "$HTML2PS $file_to_ps > $file_ps"; #And finally convert it to PDF my $file_pdf = $plot_file_base.'.pdf'; system "$PS2PDF $file_ps $file_pdf"; unlink $file_to_ps; unlink $file_ps; [download] Hope this can help.	[reply] [d/l]


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