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Re: Convert HTML to PDF from CLI?



Dotan Cohen <dotancohen@gmail.com> writes:

>> Have you tried gnuhtml2latex? I have never tried it, having always
>> dealed myself with the encoding before passing the file to html2ps.
>>
>
> Thanks, I had never heard of gnuhtml2latex until now. However, running
> it gives this output:
> Parsing of undecoded UTF-8 will give garbage when decoding entities at...
>
> Going through the manpage, I found this in the TODO:
>         more entities from outside of iso-8895-1
>
> So it seems that this is a no-go as well! I am surprised to find such
> lack of support for UTF-8 in this day and age!

Yes, it's surprising and frustrating. I think the way to go is the
python module cited in another message in this thread. You could make a
standalone converter and call it in your bash script.

Tiago.


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