Re: print html without netscape

["Donald R. Spoon" <dspoon@astcomm.net>]

Michael D. Crawford wrote:
> It seems to me that you could write a command-line program that links to 
> Mozilla's Gecko rendering engine to render HTML into an in-memory 
> graphics buffer.  Then you could dump the bitmap to the printer, or save 
> it as a TIFF file or bitmap EPS file.
>
> I haven't heard of software that does this yet, but I think it would be 
> straightforward to do it.  You could even run this from a cron job to 
> spit automatically generated HTML to the printer every hour or day.
>
> It looks like Gecko's home page is at:
>
> http://www.mozilla.org/newlayout/
>
> Mike

This "solution" may not be what the original poster had in mind, but 
OpenOffice.org "Writer" will read and print html files!  In fact, so 
will Kword and AbiWord claims to be able to open them too.  I just 
checked here, and the best rendering, IMHO, was done by the 
OpenOffice.org program.  My install of AbiWord refused to open the test 
document.

The neat thing about this method is that you can use the word processor 
to clean up any formatting problems you might have before printing.

Cheers,
-Don Spoon-