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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/] - actually that's XML/XHTML -> XML-FO -> PDF
* '''HTML2PDF''' [http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Lab/5247/] <
>[D. McC] Dead link for HTML2PDF--12/8/2004
* My Personal favourite: Use '''html2ps''' [http://www.tdb.uu.se/~jan/html2ps.html] to go from html to [PostScript] and then the standard '''ps2pdf''' [http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/doc/AFPL/8.50/Ps2pdf.htm] program. You get a pdf with intra-page links working. [VI]
* '''Bottle Neck''' [http://wolf-dieter-busch.de/html/Software/Tools/Bottle_Neck.htm] 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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[tonytraductor]
In TickleText [http://www.linguasos.org/tcltext.html] I just did:
proc pdfout {} {
if {$::filename != " "} {
set data [.txt.txt get 1.0 {end -1c}]
set fileid [open $::filename w]
puts -nonewline $fileid $data
close $fileid
eval exec enscript $::filename -q -B -p $::filename.ps &
eval exec ps2pdf $::filename.ps $::filename.pdf &
eval exec rm $::filename.ps &
} else {
set filename [tk_getSaveFile -filetypes $::file_types]
set data [.txt.txt get 1.0 {end -1c}]
wm title . "Now Tickling: $::filename"
set fileid [open $::filename w]
puts -nonewline $fileid $data
close $fileid
eval exec enscript $::filename -q -B -p $::filename.pdf &
eval exec ps2pdf $::filename.ps $::filename.pdf &
eval exec rm $::filename.ps &
}
}
but, honestly, I don't know if enscript works on Windows.
Or for exporting .tex files to pdf I just used pdflatex in a similar manner.
Of course, I'm a totaly newbie, so, perhaps I'm missing something here, or maybe
there is a more efficient way to this. I don't know.
It does work, though.
Generates a pdf file every time.
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For more references, see
[http://phaseit.net/claird/comp.text.pdf/PDF_converters.html].
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