RE: PDF Generation Utilities
- From: "Homme, James" <james.homme@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: Jamal Mazrui <empower@xxxxxxxxx>, "programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2011 15:49:40 -0400
Hi,
According to the front page at the site, it can turn HTML into PDF, but I don't
see that option in the documentation. I do see MarkDown to PDF. So I guess you
could go from HTML to MarkDown, then from MarkDown to PDF.
Jim
-----Original Message-----
From: Jamal Mazrui [mailto:empower@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Monday, August 15, 2011 10:59 AM
To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: Homme, James
Subject: Re: PDF Generation Utilities
The free Pandoc utility can convert from HTML or Markdown to PDF.
http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/
Jamal
On 8/15/2011 8:05 AM, Homme, James wrote:
> Hi Don,
>
> Thanks for this info. This sounds and looks like a great utility to work
> with PDF. The thing I want to do is work with HTML files, and convert
> them to PDF.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Jim
>
> *From:*programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] *On Behalf Of *Don Marang
> *Sent:* Monday, August 01, 2011 10:50 PM
> *To:* programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> *Subject:* Re: PDF Generation Utilities
>
> I am not sure how you plan to send the request to the Linux server or
> how to specify more than one web page. What language are you planning to
> make this request? Is it for a specific site or a general utility?
>
> In the Ubuntu repository, there is a command line utility to manipulate
> and build pdf files. The command and package name are pdftk.
>
> To install, type:
> sudo apt-get update
> sudo apt-get install pdftk
>
> Reading the man page will give you some information:
>
> man pdftk
>
> I imagine you could transfer the file from the web site to the server at
> the beginning of the script using wget, strip out the unwanted links at
> the as desired (or convert them to bookmarks), and build the pdf file. I
> do not know whether it would be easier to send the file back to the
> browser computer or just notify when processing is complete. Then it can
> present a Save As dialog and download the file from the server.
>
> There are probably many approaches to this problem, this is how I would
> approach it.
>
> *Don Marang*
> Vinux Software Development Coordinator - vinuxproject.org
> <http://www.vinuxproject.org/>
> There is just so much stuff in the world that, to me, is devoid of any
> real substance, value, and content that I just try to make sure that I
> am working on things that matter.
> -- Dean Kamen
>
>
> On 7/29/2011 9:53 AM, Homme, James wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Here is what I'd like to do.
>
> Send an accessible HTML file to a server that has a utility running on
> it that would then spit back a PDF document that I can print. The
> utility may need to be fed a collection of HTML documents that it would
> assemble into a single file to print. I would settle for code libraries
> that can work with this stuff. I believe that the server environment
> would be your normal Linux/Apache type server, but I need to make sure
> of that.
>
> Here is the process flow.
>
> The customer would click a hyperlink in the current HTML file they are
> reading.
>
> The utility would do some stuff to make the file look nicer, such as
> strip navigational elements to other pages, and whatever else is
> necessary to make it look nicer to print.
>
> The HTML file, I suppose, would need to communicate to the utility that
> it is a part of a collection of files that the utility needs to get.
>
> The customer would then be directed to that dialog that asks if they
> want to download or save the document.
>
> None of this, or as little as possible, must run on the client computer.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Jim
>
> Jim Homme,
>
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