Version 23 of Transforming HTML to PDF

Updated 2006-08-02 19:41:14

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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 PostScript and then the standard ps2pdf [L3 ] program. You get a pdf with intra-page links working. VI
• Bottle Neck [L4 ] is a converter HTML->TeX. If you take PDFlatex, the effect is HTML->PDF.

I wonder whether something using tclxml and pdflib (or pdf4tcl) might be able to be written to do this transformation.

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For more references, see [L5 ].

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