Re: Convert HTML to PDF from CLI?

[Samuel Bächler <linux@boeser.ch>]

> I need to convert an HTML document to PDF from the CLI. Currently, I
> am using a Firefox extension to do this:
> http://torisugari.googlepages.com/commandlineprint2
>
> However, this has many drawbacks and I would like to remove the
> dependency on Firefox. These are other solutions that I have looked
> into, and their problems:
>
> 1) CUPS
> Prints the HTML, not the formatted output. It treats the whole document as text.
>
> 2) html2ps
> Does not work with UTF-8 text! My native language cannot be
> represented in Latin or Japanese characters.
>
> 3) Open Office
> Requires either a macro or a wrapper script, both which are
> problematic and change each new OOo version (which I update often).
>
> 4) convert (from imagemagick)
> Does not support UTF-8!
>
> 5) gnome-web-print
> Slight formating problems with HTML tables. However, it is my
> runner-up so far as it is the only other solution that works at all.

On http://www.unicodetools.com/#html they mention a tool called iconv.
Maybe you can convert your utf-8 encoded text to whatever html2ps can
handle with iconv?

Sam