Version 18 of Transforming HTML to PDF

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People often have need of PDF output. This is generally regarded as a difficult format to write programmatically. One convenient way to begin to work with PDF is to achieve it as a transform from HTML. Several tools change HTML to PDF, including:

HTMLDOC A commercially supported version is here: http://www.easysw.com/htmldoc/ For an open source version of the same program, look here http://htmldoc.org/index.php
Apache FOP http://xml.apache.org/fop/index.html , actually that's XML/XHTML -> XML-FO -> PDF
HTML2PDF [L1 ]

D. McC Dead link for HTML2PDF--12/8/2004

My Personal favourite: Use html2ps [L2 ] to go from html to ps and then the standard ps2pdf program. You get a pdf with intra-page links working. VI
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I wonder whether something using tclxml and pdflib might be able to be written to do this transformation.

For more references, see [L3 ].

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