Version 21 of Transforming HTML to PDF

Updated 2005-07-29 02:39:32

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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:

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

  • My Personal favourite: Use html2ps [L2 ] to go from html to PostScript and then the standard ps2pdf [L3 ] 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 [L4 ].

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