FW: SPUG: html->pdf conversion?

Peter Darley pdarley at kinesis-cem.com
Thu Oct 23 15:48:13 CDT 2003


Folks,
	It looks like due to an error with mail account setup this never went out,
so I'm re-sending it.
Thanks,
Peter Darley

-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Darley [mailto:pdarley at darleyconsulting.com]
Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2003 7:05 AM
To: Alan; spug-list at pm.org
Subject: RE: SPUG: html->pdf conversion?


Alan,
	 The windows Acrobat software is able to run in a 'server' mode where it is
assigned an input and output directory, and everything that is put into the
input directory gets automatically converted to a .pdf and dumped into the
output directory.  I'm 90% sure that it can take HTML, as well as office and
desktop publishing files.  This would allow you to not have to do any
squirly pre or post processing.  I don't know if there's a Linux version of
Acrobat, but I suspect there is, and I suspect that it will do the same
thing.
	I used this method to automatically generate .pdf reports in a previous job
from .xls documents.  With Samba you could even just have the conversion
part on the windows machine, and write and read from a share, if there's not
a Linux version that does what you want.
Thanks,
Peter Darley

-----Original Message-----
From: spug-list-bounces at mail.pm.org
[mailto:spug-list-bounces at mail.pm.org]On Behalf Of Alan
Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2003 10:21 PM
To: spug-list at pm.org
Subject: Re: SPUG: html->pdf conversion?


On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 05:00:12PM -0700, Joshua Keroes wrote:
> If you have access to a Mac OSX box, here's a pretty easy alternative:
> 1. Run a webbrowser like Safari.
> 2. Go to the URL in question.
> 3. Print... | Save as PDF...

Not really reasonable for a server, I'd hate to see the webmonkey
clicking save as pdf in a slashdotting :)

Sorry, should have specified before, this is for an online project,
where designs are submitted in HTML, stored, and then output combined
with user input as a PDF suitable for printing, etc.

alan
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